Category: Books

  • Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges Praeger March 2016 415 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9978-1-4408-3369-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3370-0 Edited by: Margaret Foegen Karsten, Professor of Human Resource Management; Internship Coordinator School of Business University of Wisconsin, Platteville For America to prosper, organizations need to address disparate treatment…

  • Is race only about the color of your skin? In “The Latinos of Asia,” Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context.

  • Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were…

  • Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—”Terra Incognita” is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history’s grand narratives.

  • Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2015-09-08 384 pages Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.21 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062305251 Paperback ISBN: 9780062305268 E-book ISBN: 9780062305275 Joy-Ann Reid Barack Obama’s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of…

  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016-02-02 368 pages 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780544387669 eBook ISBN: 9780544386426 Paperback ISBN: 9780544811805 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race…

  • Mixed-Race Youth and Schooling: The Fifth Minority Routledge 2016-02-26 256 pages 10 B/W Illus. Hardback ISBN: 978-1-13-802191-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-13-802193-8 Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Professor of Education Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas This timely, in-depth examination of the educational experiences and needs of mixed-race children (“the fifth minority”) focuses on the four contexts that primarily influence learning…

  • Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial-which spanned several…

  • “Braided Skin” is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding–a different metaphor than “mixing,” our default when speaking the language of race.

  • I Heart Obama University Press of New England 2016-02-09 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61168-536-7 Ebook IBSN: 978-1-61168-967-9 Erin Aubry Kaplan A personal and cultural exploration of Barack Obama as black president, black icon, and black folk hero In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status…