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  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…

  • Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean

    A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history.

  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

    Published in 1860, shortly before the start of the Civil War,” Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom” is the narrative of William and Ellen Craft’s escape from slavery.

  • Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues

    Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues The Scarecrow Press, Inc. March 2005 264 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8108-5199-7; ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5199-3 Edited by Karen Downing, Foundation and Grants Librarian Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Darlene Nichols, Psychology Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Kelly…

  • The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

    The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White St. Martin’s Press an imprint of Macmillan February 1999 ISBN: 978-0-312-25393-6 ISBN10: 0-312-25393-1 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 400 pages, Plus 16-page b&w photo insert Henry Wiencek Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America,…

  • Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants

    In “Pure Beauty,” Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O’Riain employs rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity.

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

    In “Hybrid,” Ruth Colker argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Ruth Colker shows how categories can and must be improved for the good of all.

  • Choosing Ethnic Identity

    Choosing Ethnic Identity Polity Books February 2003 192 pages 229 x 152 mm, 6 x 9 in Hardback ISBN: 9780745622767; ISBN10: 0745622763 Paperback ISBN: 9780745622774; ISBN10: 0745622771 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Choosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies…

  • Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region

    This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England’s past.