Category: Books

  • Pets, Playmates, Pedagogues (From Chapter Four of Oreo) The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-07-06 Fran Ross Oreo, Fran Ross’s ground-breaking satire, was originally published in 1974. It is being re-issued this week by New Directions, with an introduction by Danzy Senna and a foreword by Harryette Mullen. Mat Johnson of NPR…

  • For once it’s not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his journey through life as a multicultural and multiethnic American, Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class.

  • A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City

  • Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations Haymarket Books 2009 412 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781608460359 Edited by: Keri E. Iyall Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology Suffolk University, Boston Patricia Leavy Combining theoretical and empirical pieces, this book explores the emerging theoretical work seeking to describe hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in…

  • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…

  • The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices…

  • The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.

  • Mislaid: A Novel Ecco/HarperCollins 2015-05-19 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062364777 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784 E-book ISBN: 9780062364791 Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d) Nell Zink A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and…

  • Multicultural Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Identity NASW Press 2015 224 pages ISBN: 978-0-87101-460-3 Edited by: Elizabeth Pathy Salett, MSW Diane R. Koslow, PhD In the past 30 years, the United States has undergone an unprecedented and accelerated growth in the diversity of its population. These changes affect all elements of our society, underscoring the…

  • The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest HarperCollins 2002 416 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0002570653 Paperback ISBN: 0006531261 Aminatta Forna An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he…