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  • New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology

    New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology New York University Press Paperback 2001 296 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814793435 Edited by Charmaine Wijeyesinghe Bailey W. Jackson, Associate Professor of Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Decades have passed since our original theories of racial identity development were formed, bringing with them changes in…

  • 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…