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  • Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People

    Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People The Majority Press 1989 214 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0912469263 Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2014) Translated by Elisa Larkin Nascimento Nascimento explodes the myth of a “racial democracy” in Brazil. The author is a major figure in Afro-Brazilian arts,…

  • Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

    Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil Princeton University Press 2016 328 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780691169385 eBook ISBN: 978140088107 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative…

  • Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

    Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil Duke University Press 1999 304 pages 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2260-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2292-4 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Winner, Brazil in Comparative Perspective section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Best Book…

  • Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

    Race and Nation in Modern Latin America University of North Carolina Press March 2003 352 pages 5 illus., notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5441-9 Edited By: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate professor of History State University of New York, Binghamton Anne S. Macpherson, Associate Professor of History State University of New York, Brockport…

  • Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela

    Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela University of Texas Press 1990 184 pages 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-79080-3 Winthrop R. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History University of Maryland For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well…

  • Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831

    Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…

  • Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil

    Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil Rutgers University Press November 2001 278 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3000-0 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5602-4 Robin E. Sheriff, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of New Hampshire In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist…

  • The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

    A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.

  • For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery

    For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery Allium Press of Chicago 2015 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9890535-9-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9967558-0-1 D. M. Pirrone [Diane Piron-Gelman] Chicago, Illinois On a spring morning in 1872, former Civil War officer Ben Champion is discovered dead in his Chicago bedroom—a bayonet protruding from…

  • The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters Syracuse University Press 2016 360 pages 2 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, index 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-3446-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8156-1068-7 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8156-5369-1 J. W. Loguen (1813-1872) Edited and with a Critical Introduction…