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  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race

    White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America

    Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America

    Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America Africa World Press 2013 176 pages ISBN: 978-1592219339 Edited by: Elisabeth Cunin, Sociologist Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France Odile Hoffmann, Geographer Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

    Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Caribbean Racisms: Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Caribbean Region

    This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

  • Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity

    Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics

    In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a…

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine

    Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

    The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity Yale University Press 2015-09-29 368 pages 17 b/w illustrations 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300169607 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than…