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  • Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

    Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality Westview Press 2014-03-11 552 pages Print ISBN: 9780813349305 Ebook ISBN: 9780813349312 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Despite radical changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in U.S. society, a key arena of inequality, and the…

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives

    Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.

  • The Leopard Boy, A Novel

    This wildly imaginative and culturally resonant tale by Daniel Picouly audaciously places black and mixed-race characters–including King Mac, creator of the first hamburger, who hands out figures of Voltaire and Rousseau with his happy meals, and the megalomaniac Black Delorme, creator of a slavery theme park–at the forefront of its Revolution-era story.

  • Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity

    The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman’s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.

  • A Biography Of E. Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922), African-american Singer And Social Activist

    Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage

    Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage The Orderly Pack Rat 2015-04-25 328 pages 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0970430816 David W. Jackson By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson,…

  • Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials

    This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism.

  • The American Negro: A Study in Racial Crossing

    An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.

  • My Name is Leon

    A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you’d least expect to find one.

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels

    Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…