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  • Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit

    In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquín Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France,…

  • Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribbean Literature

    “Charcoal and Cinnamon” explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.

  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia

    Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia University of Western Australia Publishing 2002-08-31 246 pages 207 x 139 mm ISBN: 978-1876268732 Penelope Hetherington Settlers, Servants and Slaves documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short…

  • Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico

    Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio

  • Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence

    Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence Heyday November 2010 24 pages Paperback, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-59714-145-1 Damany M. Fisher, Professor of History and Political Science Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California California’s Afro-Latino heritage Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions…

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

    The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…

  • The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography

    The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…

  • From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience

    From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience Ian Randle Publishers 2000-09-05 216 pages 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-9768123879 Easton Lee Photographs by Owen Minott Easton Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-a-bit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…