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  • The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

    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.

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem

    Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…

  • The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon

    The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon University Press of Kansas June 2015 400 pages 7 illustrations, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2100-2 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2101-9 Amy M. Ware Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And…

  • Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . & Their Friends

    A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.

  • Machado de Assis: A Literary Life

    Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People

    Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People University of North Carolina Press April 2015 Approx. 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 17 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index Paper: ISBN 978-1-4696-2105-0 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadas Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men…

  • Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

    Through its author’s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes—the ‘monstrous hybrid’, the ‘tropical temptress’, the ‘tragic mulatto/a’, and the ‘mulatto legend of history’, Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti’s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day…

  • Loving Day: A Novel

    Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night…