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  • Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa

    In “Unreasonable Histories,” Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book’s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.

  • 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…