Category: Books

  • Following her National Book Award– nominated debut novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South

  • From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In “Possessing Polynesians” Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia,…

  • Contributing to an emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e. “doing”) of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

  • An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes

  • Bookended by the deaths of her mother in childhood, and Tony this year, “All at Sea” looks at class, race, privilege and prejudice through the prism of Decca’s life and these deaths. It stares into the dark chasm of our worst nightmare – a random accidental tragedy – and somehow finds the light on the…

  • The classic biography of the infamous black Negrophobe William Hannibal Thomas, with a new preface by the author

  • “Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity” explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions.

  • A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.

  • Kamal Ahmed’s childhood was very ‘British’ in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.

  • “Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932” examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media.