Category: Books

  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era University of Chicago Press April 2016 272 pages 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226353012 Cloth ISBN: 9780226352961 E-book ISBN: 9780226353159 Michael Tesler, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine When Barack Obama won the presidency, many…

  • Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…

  • Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism…

  • Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic…

  • Anna In-Between Akashic Books 2010-08-17 352 pages Paperback IBSN: 9781936070695 Hardcover IBSN: 9781933354842 Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of English Hunter College, the City University of New York Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns…

  • In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917–1970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In…

  • Where Are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies – The True Story of an Extraordinary Family Blackstaff Press 2010-12-06 208 pages 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0856408533 Tim Brannigan Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966, and spent the first year of his life in St Joseph’s…

  • Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century University of California Press May 2015 414 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520284296 Paperback ISBN: 9780520284302 E-Book ISBN: 9780520959903 Marc Matera, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site…

  • Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History University Press of Kentucky 1999-12-16 224 pages 6 x 9 photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-2143-7 Janet Gabler-Hover, Professor of English Georgia State University Winner of the SAMLA 2001 Book Award Hagar, the Old Testament Egyptian heroine who bore Abraham’s son at the behest of Sarah, was…

  • Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film University of Minnesota Press 2007 200 pages 24 b&w photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3412-5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3411-8 Cindy Patton, Canada Research Chair in Community Culture and Health Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Though largely forgotten today, the 1949 film Pinky had a significant…