Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Myth of the Human Races

    The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate “races” of humanity exist.

  • Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia

    Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia University of Pittsburgh Press May 2004 240 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822942276 Javier C. Sanjinés, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies University of Michigan Mestizaje refers to the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixture that is part of cultural identity in Latin America.…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American

    A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience

    Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…

  • Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880

    The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California

  • Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

    The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, “Composition in Black and White” draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality.

  • Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family

    Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family Oxford University Press July 2006 312 pages 2 maps, 15 halftones, 1 line illus. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 ISBN13: 978-0-19-531310-9 ISBN10: 0-19-531310-0 Claudio Saunt, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies University of Georgia Winner of the…

  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

    An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2003 416 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 16 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52951-2, ISBN10: 0-374-52951-5 Henry Wiencek L.A. Times Book Prize – Winner, History A major new biography of Washington, and…

  • Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era

    Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era The University of Michgan Press 2009 320 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-11450-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03391-1 Ebook Formats ISBN: 978-0-472-02179-6 John Kenneth White, Professor of Politics Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C Research and reflections on the American demographic…

  • The Ethics of Identity

    But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?