Category: Books

  • The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…

  • The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.

  • Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico University Press of Florida 2018-08-28 250 pages 6×9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394 Paper ISBN 13: 9781683403104 David S. Dalton, Assistant Professor of Spanish University of North Carolina, Charlotte After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s…

  • 21. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood Chapter in the anthology: Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson (ed.) (2019-09-12, Open Book Publishers) Printed ISBN: 9781783745654 eBook ISBN: 9791036538070 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Fig. 21.1. Portrait of Fredi Washington. Courtesy of…

  • An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author

  • Stemming from the 2000 Census when respondents could indicate more than one racial category for the first time in history, Structural Influence on “Biracial Identification” is the first study of its kind to explore how urban environmental dynamics influence biracial identification in the United States.

  • In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America, this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multi-ethnic, racially ambiguous, and culturally fluid country.

  • This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”

  • A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891)   The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…

  • From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of “Girl, Woman,” Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism