Mixed Race Studies

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Category: Monographs

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.

  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

    The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging W. W. Norton May 2006 240 pages 5.8 × 8.6 in ISBN: 978-0-393-05890-1 Kym Ragusa, Professor of Nonfiction &  Professor Writing Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Inistitute of Technology A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    So begins this epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work.…

  • Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative

    Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…

  • Mestizo Modernism

    Mestizo Modernism Rutgers University Press 2003 280 pages 21 b&w illus. Paper ISBN 0-8135-3217-5 Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3216-7 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor and Women’s Studies University of Florida, Gainesville We use the term “modernism” almost exclusively to characterize the work of European and American writers and artists who struggled to portray a new kind of fractured…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation

    African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation University Press of America June 2004 136 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 / 978-0-7618-2858-7 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased…

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

    Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…

  • Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

    Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (Also published in the United States by Harvard University Press as Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line) Routledge 2004-08-26 424 pages Trim Size: 234X156 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-34365-7 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory The London School of Economics and Political Science…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada

    Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us “Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada,” a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.