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  • The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest

    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…

  • North End Love Songs

    North End Love Songs J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2012-03-20 108 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-897289-76-1 Katherena Vermette Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. A self-described “tuff grrl with two ffs” there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette’s first collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, she will also be known as…

  • The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South

    “The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

    The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life

    Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life Ashgate September 2014 148 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-4498-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4094-4499-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-0107-6 Jonathan Xavier Inda, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political…

  • The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream

    “The First Black President” is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America.

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru

    Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities

    Being Maori-Chinese uses extensive interviews with seven different families to explore historical and contemporary relations between Māori and Chinese, a subject which has never been given serious study before. A full chapter is given to each family which is explored in depth often in the voices of the protagonists themselves.

  • Fast Talking PI

    Fast Talking PI Arc Publications July 2012 80 pages 216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback) Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet’s focus on issues affecting Pacific…

  • Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon

    Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…