Category: Books

  • Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope And The Campaign For Change Abrams 2009-10-01 184 pages 150 full-color illustrations Trim Size: 9 x 11 Paperback ISBN: 0-8109-8498-9 Edited by: Shepard Fairey Jennifer Gross Few events in recent memory have captivated the world’s attention like that of Barack Obama’s historic presidential campaign. Not only did it stir…

  • Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist University of Oklahoma Press September 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806149165 Amina Hassan, Consultant & Researcher The Azara Group, New York, New York Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the…

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Thayer and Eldridge 1861 Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) Edited by Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Read the entire book here or here.

  • Genetic Approaches to Health Disparities Chapter in Genetics, Health and Society (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 16) (2014) pages 71-93 DOI: 10.1108/S1057-629020150000016003 Catherine Bliss, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, San Francisco Purpose This chapter explores the rise in genetic approaches to health disparities at the turn of the twenty-first century. Methodology/approach Analysis of…

  • nterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In “Crossing the Color Line,” Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines.

  • Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman Magabala Books January 2009 164 pages 240 x 165 Paperback ISBN: 9781921248108 Helen Gee and Ronnie Summers Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on Cape Barren Island and how the island’s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the muttonbird islands, a ‘kangaroo…

  • The anthology, Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, cites the experiences of twenty-four mixed-race authors and those in interracial partnerships of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world.

  • Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in…

  • Whiteness Fractured Ashgate Publishing November 2013 256 pages Includes 1 b&w illustration 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-6357-3 Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Associate Professor of Sociology Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring…

  • Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 280 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9 Iris Idelson-Shein, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein,…