Category: Monographs

  • The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…

  • Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music Temple University Press December 2009 238 pp 6×9 1 figure 5 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-090-1; ISBN: 1-4399-0090-6 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-089-5; ISBN: 1-4399-0089-2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Tufts University Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como…

  • Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South University of North Carolina Press March 1998 382 pages 6.125 x 9.25 8 tables, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4712-1 Peter W. Bardaglio, Associate Professor of History Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Winner of the 1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians…

  • The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing University of Minnesota Press 2006 288 pages 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4786-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4786-6 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4785-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4785-9 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature University of Pittsburgh Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity.…

  • Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…

  • Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and contemporary debates. He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, avoiding the implication that “race” means “black-white” relations.

  • White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach Pluto Press 2009-11-06 240 pages Size: 215mm x 135mm ISBN: 9780745327488 Steve Garner, Lecturer in Sociology Aston University Simon Clarke, Director Centre for Psycho-Social Studies University of the West of England The study of white ethnicities is becoming increasingly important in the social sciences. This book provides a critical…

  • “Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.

  • “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage Xlibris Press 2009 102 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-9510-0 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9510-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN: 1-4363-9511-9 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9511-3 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) Phillip MacFarland Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader…

  • Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and…