Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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The Life of William Apess, Pequot University of North Carolina Press March 2015 216 pages 1 halftone, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1998-9 Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess…
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“In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.
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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans University Press of Florida 2006-05-30 304 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-2942-9 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity…
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The Love Wife: A Novel Vintage Books 2005-10-11 400 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2 Gish Jen From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese…
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The Undertaker’s Daughter University of Pittsburgh Press October 2011 104 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822962007 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania View the Table of Contents here. Read a selection from the book here.
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey W. W. Norton & Company June 1999 208 pages 5.1 × 8 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31901-9 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a…
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Captivity University of Pittsburgh Press November 1989 88 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN: 9780822954224 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces…