Category: Books

  • Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…

  • Isamu was a boy of the East and the West. Born in the United States to a Japanese father and Scotch-Irish American mother, Isamu grew up in Japan. From his earliest years he felt the tug of his biracial heritage, never quite fitting in or thinking he belonged. Pleasure came, however, from the natural world.…

  • Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Lexington Books May 2012 142 pages Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right…

  • First detailed study of “literary race” in eighteenth-century America

  • Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 University of Minnesota Press September 2015 368 pages 32 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7303-2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7302-5 Melissa N. Stein, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Kentucky From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American…

  • European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…

  • Young adult literary fiction for teens struggling with racial and cultural identity and racism.

  • Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins—and the mechanisms that perpetuate these strata across generations.

  • Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…

  • Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Yale University Press 2013-01-08 424 pages 64 b/w illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300124347 Barbara Ransby, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, African American Studies & History University of Illinois, Chicago Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the…