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  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

    Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

    Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865–1920

    Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.

  • North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio

    North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio Mercer University Press 2001 220 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780865547032 John S. Kessler Donald B. Ball The newest book in Mercer University Press’ new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A Folk History of…

  • Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition

    Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition Yale University Press 2000-06-19 304 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300080131 Courtney Jung, Associate Professor of Political Science The New School Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis…

  • The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance

    The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…

  • Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel

    Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novel The University of Alabama Press 2006 208 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-1520-7 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8228-5 Ryan Simmons An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism.   With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work,…

  • Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920

    Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920 University of Arizona Press 2009 240 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8 Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Professor of Sociology Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on…

  • Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest

    Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest University of Arizona Press 2006 200 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2504-1; Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2505-8 Thomas Macias, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont How much does ethnicity matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their culture and some can’t even…

  • The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance

    The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance Ashgate Publishing November 2009 232 pages Includes 5 b&w illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-6198-6 Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies University of Swansea Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility…