Category: Monographs

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.

  • Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects Duke University Press August 2010 264 pages 21 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4591-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4609-8 Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies Tufts University Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the…

  • The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.

  • Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition Routledge 1994-12-14 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0 Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature New York University As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to…

  • Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…

  • Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil Duke University Press 2001 392 pages 46 b&w photos, 1 map, 3 figures Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2731-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2741-7 Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in…

  • Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line The Penguin Press 2009-02-05 384 pages 5.98 x 9.01in Hardcover ISBN 9781594202001 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman…

  • A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest.