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  • In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

    In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…

  • The Human Face of Globalization: From Multicultural to Mestizaje

    Anthropologist and sociologist Jacques Audinet proposes an alternative to culture wars and simple multiculturalism as he explores the history and evolution of mestizaje, the mixing of races and cultures resulting in a third and new force able to ease the tensions between the original two.

  • Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

    Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Routledge 2016-12-20 246 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781138677708 Edited by: Farida Fozdar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology University of Western Australia Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology) School of Social Science University of Queensland This volume offers a “southern,” Pacific Ocean perspective on the…

  • Re Jane: A Novel

    Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park    For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…

  • Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History

    Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History Duke University Press 2016 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-6248-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-6263-0 Stuart Hall (1932–2014) Edited by: Jennifer Daryl Slack, Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies Michigan Technological University Lawrence Grossberg, Morris David Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The publication of Cultural Studies…

  • Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White

    In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.

  • Springfield Road

    “Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…

  • Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

    Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism Stanford University Press 2016-11-30 248 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804799560 Paper ISBN: 9781503600546 Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics James Madison College, Michigan State University Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved,…

  • Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

    Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-12-06 192 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.432 in (d) Paperback ISBN: 9780062484154 E-book ISBN: 9780062484161 Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) Foreword by: Elizabeth Alexander Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, and named one of the most anticipated books of…

  • Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary

    The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.