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  • Monsieur de Saint-George “The American”

    His life is the stuff of legend: born in 1739 of a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the court of The Sun King, and, most of all, an accomplished musician who came to be known as the “Black Mozart.”

  • The Blues in Black and White: A Collection of Essays, Poetry, and Conversations

    The ever-engaging work of the controversial activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is revealed in this important collection of translated pieces.

  • Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper (an imprint of Macmillan) September 2008 128 pages 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches Grade Range: 5 and up, Age Range: 10 and up ISBN: 978-0-374-40023-1, ISBN10: 0-374-40023-7 Andrea Warren An unforgettable true story of an orphan…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 Hill and Wang (an imprint of MacMillan) September 1999 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8090-8789-1, ISBN10: 0-8090-8789-8 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Translated by Leland Guyer, Professor of Hispanic Studies Macalester…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

    What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks.

  • Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

    Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home Wiley-Blackwell August 2005 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4051-0054-0 Papeback ISBN: 978-1-4051-0055-7 E-book ISBN: 978-1-4051-4130-7 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…

  • The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States

    The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States Praeger Publishers May 2013 195 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38569-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-38570-4 Eric J. Bailey, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina This unique and important book investigates what…

  • Christian view on segregation

    A reprint of an address made before the Synod of Mississippi of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. on November 4, 1954.