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  • The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family 1660-1900

    The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…

  • A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone

    A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone Texas Tech University Press September 2008 272 pages 35 B/W photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-89672-635-2 Shirley Gordon Jackson with introduction by Maceo C. Dailey, Jr., Professor of African American Studies University of Texas El Paso The enlightening memoir of one  multiethnic family’s struggles and triumphs. Before…

  • Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus

    Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…

  • Family Values in the Old South

    Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History

    We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History University of Virginia Press 1992 304 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 52 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-2371-0 T. O. Madden, Jr. (1903-2000) with Ann L. Miller, Historian Virginia Transportation Research Council Foreword by Nell Irvin Painter In August of 1758, in…

  • Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

    The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture.

  • Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848

    Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars

    Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars McGill-Queen’s University Press 2005-04-27 256 pages 6 x 9 Paper: (0773528873) 9780773528871 Cloth: (0773528865) 9780773528864 Edited by Jo-Anne Lee, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of Victoria John Sutton Lutz, Associate Professor of History University of Victoria A resource for…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

    “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…