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  • Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World

    Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World Rutgers University Press October 2000 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-8135-2843-7 Paper ISBN: 0-8135-2844-5 Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A sociological analysis of the experiences and challenges faced by black-white multiracial families At…

  • The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction

    The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction Rutgers University Press 2004-09-29 202 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3481-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3482-4 Eve Allegra Raimon, Professor, Arts & Humanities University of Southern Maine Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and…

  • A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America

    This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time–the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of an unusually rich and interactive ethnic mix.

  • “Miscegenation” Making Race in America

    In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders

    Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders Texas A&M University Press 2003 320 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-58544-346-8 John Francis Burke, Professor of Political Science and Chair University of St. Thomas, Houston Foreword by Virgilio Elizondo It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing.…

  • Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000

    In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

  • Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas

    In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas.

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt

    The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…

  • New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States

    New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Louisiana State University Press 1980 240 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2035-4 Joel Williamson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present,…

  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930

    Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…