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  • Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative

    Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative Stanford University Press 1997 280 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804727740; ISBN-13: 9780804727747 Paper ISBN-10: 0804727759; ISBN-13: 9780804727754 Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely…

  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation

    Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…

  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Third Edition)

    Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity.

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

    Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Race Law Stories

    Race Law Stories Foundation Press 2008 624 pages ISBN-13: 9781599410012 Edited by Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Devon Wayne Carbado, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Race Law Stories brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions—hidden gems—that address slavery, Native American…

  • Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

    Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities Alta Mira Press April 1998 116 pages Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4  Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1  Juanita Tamayo Lott Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial…

  • How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

    For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses–not just their eyes–to construct racial difference and define race.

  • A Southern Family in White and Black: The Cuneys of Texas

    Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870

    One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans

    The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans Rutgers University Press 2007-03-28 168 pages 9 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4058-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4057-3 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland In 1843, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard the case of a…