Category: Monographs

  • One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…

  • Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Plume, an imprint of Penguin February 1996 304 pages 5.35 x 7.95in Paperback ISBN: 9780452275331 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Gregory Howard Williams, President University of Cincinnati Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize Friends of…

  • Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, “Diploma of Whiteness” shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention.

  • “Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay” studies Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay as poets who identify and represent some key forms of “otherness” may take in the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s.

  • This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism.

  • A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…

  • For the first time, all the proslavery—but also pro-black—writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others.

  • Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought Duke University Press 1974 334 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-1320-5 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore’s intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in…

  • Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…

  • Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.