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  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

    Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…

  • The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy

    The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…

  • Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe

    Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe Africa World Press May 2004 300 pages SKU: 1592212648 ISBN: 1592212648 James Muzondidya, Senior Research Specialist of Democracy and Governance Human Sciences Research Council This book examines the history of the Coloured or “mixed race” community of Zimbabwe, a group that has…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…

  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8  Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition)

    Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…

  • Hapa Girl: A Memoir

    Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…