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  • Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, “Daughters of the Trade” uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.

  • A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

    Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.

  • Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families

    Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families University of Massachusetts Press 1997-11-21 160 pages 0.5 x 8 x 10.5 inches ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-101-4 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-100-7 (out of print) Gigi Kaeser, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Peggy Gillespie, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie.…

  • Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd

    Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…

  • The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War

    The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…

  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War

    Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War Smashwords 2012-06-06 77 pages (21,670 words) eBook ISBN: 9781476497068 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction…

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present

    Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present Cambridge University Press January 2013 219 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 map 19 tables 229 x 153 x 14 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521193627 Paperback ISBN: 9780521145350 eBook ISBN: 9781139602723 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Immigration, Ethnicity, and…

  • Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

    The incontrovertible truths of this book and its sincere warnings are respectfully inscribed to every white man and woman, regardless of nationality, who is a bona fide citizen of the United States of America.

  • Letters To a Mixed Race Son

    Letters To a Mixed Race Son CreateSpace 2012-01-06 152 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1468184024; ISBN-13: 978-1468184020 Frank E. Robinson, Jr. Foreword by Bishop Charles E. Blake In a world that continues to grapple with notions of race, a loving father writes a series of letters that speak into the life…

  • Who We Be: The Colorization of America

    Who We Be: The Colorization of America St. Martin’s Press (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2014 416 pages 7.81 x 9.33 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780312571290; ISBN10: 0312571291 Jeff Chang, Executive Director Institute for Diversity in the Arts Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago…