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  • How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity

    How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity Temple University Press 1999 264 pages 6×9 EAN: 978-1-56639-651-6 ISBN: 1-56639-651-4 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Sab and Autobiography

    Sab and Autobiography University of Texas Press 1993 185 pages 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-70442-8 Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Translated and introduced by Nina M. Scott Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love…

  • Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific

    Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific University of Hawai’i Press July 2009 304 pages 15 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3342-8 Fiona Paisley, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia Perspectives on the Global Past Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed…

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.

  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

    The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging W. W. Norton May 2006 240 pages 5.8 × 8.6 in ISBN: 978-0-393-05890-1 Kym Ragusa, Professor of Nonfiction &  Professor Writing Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Inistitute of Technology A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    So begins this epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work.…

  • Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative

    Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…

  • Mestizo Modernism

    Mestizo Modernism Rutgers University Press 2003 280 pages 21 b&w illus. Paper ISBN 0-8135-3217-5 Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3216-7 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor and Women’s Studies University of Florida, Gainesville We use the term “modernism” almost exclusively to characterize the work of European and American writers and artists who struggled to portray a new kind of fractured…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…