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  • The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity

    In “The Mulatto Republic,” April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism.

  • Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America

    Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

  • Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution

    Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution University of Illinois Press July 2014 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 10 black & white photographs, 1 chart Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance…

  • The Colonel’s Dream

    The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…

  • Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

    A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

    The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District

    Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia

    Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…

  • Philosophy of Science and Race

    Philosophy of Science and Race Routledge 2002-09-20 152 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-94164-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94163-1 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reason and Method 1. Philosophical Racial Essentialism: Hume and Kant 2. Geography and Ideas of Race 3. Phenotypes and Ideas of Race 4. Transmisson Genetics and Ideas…