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  • Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America: Perspectives on Multiracial America

    Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America: Perspectives on Multiracial America Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. June 2006 208 pages Cloth: 0-7425-4316-1 / 978-0-7425-4316-4 Paper 0-7425-4317-X / 978-0-7425-4317-1   Richard Rees, Assistant professor of American Literature Antioch College From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to…

  • American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity

    This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity

    Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity Lexington Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers December 2006 Cloth: 0-7391-1896-X / 978-0-7391-1896-2 Paper: 0-7391-1897-8 / 978-0-7391-1897-9 Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Foreword by Paula Gunn Allen Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. December 2007 220 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7425-6054-6 / 978-0-7425-6054-3 Paper ISBN: 0-7425-6055-4 / 978-0-7425-6055-0 By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma Foreword by Joe Feagin Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study of the dynamic meaning of racial identity for multiracial people…

  • Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

    Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2008 146 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2763-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2764-3 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3208-1 By Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd “Is That Your Child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African…

  • Race and Mixed Race

    Race and Mixed Race Temple University Press October 1993 232 pages 6×9 paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9      Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to…

  • Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 405 pages Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-58826-372-8 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-58826-398-8 Edited by David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and…

  • Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

    Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Duke University Press 1998 272 pages 13 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2105-X, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-2105-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-2120-3, ISBN13 978-0-8223-2120-0 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor, African and African American Studies Duke University Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction…

  • Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

    Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad Duke University Press October 2004 280 pages 9 b&w photos, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3376-7, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3376-0 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3388-0, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3388-3 Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a…

  • America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide

    America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide University of Michigan Press 2007 296 oages 6 x 9. 296 pgs. 1 table Cloth: 978-0-472-11609-6 Paper: 978-0-472-03320-1 Ebook Formats: 978-0-472-02175-8 Ronald Fernandez, Professor of Sociology Criminal Justice Department Central Connecticut State University For the first time in U.S.…