Category: Monographs

  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…

  • Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Palgrave Macmillan August 2003 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-0-312-29374-1, ISBN10: 0-312-29374-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-312-29375-8, ISBN10: 0-312-29375-5 Livio Sansone, Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname,…

  • Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops Duke University Press 2007 360 pages 37 b&w photos, 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4037-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4018-8 Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical…

  • A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…

  • Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…

  • To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…

  • This groundbreaking ethnographic study analyzes everyday practices that leave intact the myth that Brazil is a racial democracy.