Category: Books

  • This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

  • Passing for what you are not—whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women–can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing’s radical playfulness, the…

  • Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race New York University Press April 2014 273 pages 12 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9781479812981 Paper ISBN: 9781479859498 Ellen Samuels, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English University of Wisconsin, Madison In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white,…

  • “Race in Mind” presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America’s most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars. Collected in one volume are all of Paul Spickard’s theoretical writings over the past two decades.

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…

  • John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. Political…

  • Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice Routledge 2013-05-13 24 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81970-1 Edited by: Ximena Zuniga, Associate Professor in Social Justice Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gretchen Lopez, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program and Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Kristie Ford, Director of…

  • The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright Edwin Mellen Press 2013 176 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-4077-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4077-7 Steven Troy Moore, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas This book examines the contrasting experiences of black rage that is exhibited in the writings of…

  • The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hackett Publishing Company March 2013 ca. 152 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-60384-853-3; 978-1-60384-853-4 Paper ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Examination ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Edited by: John Charles Chasteen, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Accompanied by a thorough…

  • Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy—by cracking the genome of her own family.