Category: Monographs

  • An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico University of Oklahoma Press December 2010 400 pages 30 B&W Illus., 2 Maps 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140537 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168920 Shirley Boteler Mock, Research Fellow Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin Explores a unique and eclectic culture rooted in African…

  • Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matter AltaMira Press February 2010 228 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7591-1176-6 / 978-0-7591-1176-9   James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Associate Professor of Art Education Syracuse University Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the…

  • Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Duke University Press 2010 296 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4 Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of…

  • Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…

  • We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Harvard University Press 2005 336 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780674025714 Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Harvard University 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist…

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South New York University Press 2010-04-23 304 pages 13 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814791325 Paperback ISBN: 9780814791332 Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during the heart of Jim Crow-era segregation. A Japanese-American person boards…

  • The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South