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  • Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders

    Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders Columbia University Press October 2013 280 pages 6 B&W Photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-13294-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-13295-4 Kyle D. Killian, Couple and Family Therapist; Associate Professor and Research Associate Centre for Refugee Studies York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with…

  • Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

    Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.

  • William Wells Brown: An African American Life

    William Wells Brown: An African American Life W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. October 2014 624 pages 6.6 × 9.6 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-24090-0 Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.…

  • Gardening in the Tropics

    Gardening in the Tropics Insomniac Press 2005 (originally published in 1994) 144 pages 5″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN: 1-897178-00-X Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior’s rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism.…

  • The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

    Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as “mixed” were not…

  • Am I Black Enough For You?

    Winner of the Vic Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.

  • Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe

    Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe Routledge 2014-04-02 264 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3 Edited by: Michael McEachrane Foreword by: Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature King’s College, London Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that…

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

    The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea Harvard University Press October 2014 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 4 halftones, 2 line illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674417311 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all…

  • Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series

    Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series University of North Carolina Press September 2014 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1800-5 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University Who are we, and where do we…

  • Clotel or, The President’s Daughter

    Clotel or, The President’s Daughter Penguin Press 2003-12-30 (First published in December 1853) 320 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142437728 ePub ISBN: 9781440626616 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Introduction by: M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had…