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  • “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…

  • Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954

    A stunning exploration of America’s attitudes on interracial marriage.

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation

    Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson…

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness

    Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness University of North Carolina Press April 2009 408 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3268-4 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5939-1 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Assistant Professor of History Kent State University In 1925 Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…

  • The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

    The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States Praeger Publishers 2000-11-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00033-1 Ursula M. Brown, Psychotherapist in Private Practice Montclair, New Jersey, USA The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic,…

  • The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together?

    The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together? University Press of America June 2005 204 pages Paper 0-7618-3213-0 / 978-0-7618-3213-3 Janis Faye Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Houston Race and racism are interconnected historically and in the modern world. This connection is related to changing social, political, and economic conditions…

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar

    A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.