Category: Monographs

  • “To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.

  • My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Simon and Schuster October 2011 368 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1451627548; ISBN-13: 9781451627541 eBook ISBN-10: 1451627564; ISBN-13: 9781451627565 Mark Whitaker In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating…

  • Powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of…

  • The pernicious propaganda relating to the Nordic doctrine before, during, and since the war is the excuse for this book. From the closing years of the last century to the outbreak of the Great War there was in Germany a rising tide of adulation of the blond dolichocephal as the embodiment of all that was…

  • A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Palgrave Macmillan September 2010 282 pages 6 x 9 1/4 inches, Includes: 50 pgs illus Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10473-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10473-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10472-3, ISBN10: 0-230-10472-X Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Martin Klimke, Research Fellow German Historical Institute,…

  • The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America Hill and Wang (an imprint of Macmillan) May 2011 432 pages 6 x 9 inches, 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8090-9517-9, ISBN10: 0-8090-9517-3 Julie Winch, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Boston The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans…

  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…

  • When Danzy Senna’s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.