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  • Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

    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…

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk University of North Carolina Press August 2015 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7 Stephanie J. Shaw, Professor of History Ohio State University In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American…

  • The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century

    In “The Color of Our Future,” young journalist Farai Chideya explores how members of the next generation deal with race in their own lives and how the decisions they make determine America’s ethnic future.

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    The Souls of Black Folk Yale University Press 2015-06-30 (Originally published in 1903) 240 pages 18 b/w illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paper ISBN: 9780300195828 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Introduction and Chronology by: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies; Dean of Yale College…

  • Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba

    Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City

    Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…

  • “Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand

    “Mixed race” is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of “mixed race” across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural,…

  • Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

    In 2009, when Raquel Cepeda almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was terrified she’d never know the truth about her ancestry. Every time she looked in the mirror, Cepeda saw a mystery—a tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix.

  • A Colored Woman in a White World

    Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American

    Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American Liveright (an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company) November 2015 320 pages 9.4 × 12.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87140-468-8 John Stauffer, Professor of English, American studies, and African American Studies Harvard University Zoe Trodd, Professor of American Literature Department of American…