Category: Monographs

  • “Love’s Revolution” traces the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices and false beliefs that oppress racially mixed families.

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • “Race in the Making” provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.

  • Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life University of Arizona Press 1998 188 pages 5.0 x 8.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2270-5 Luis Alberto Urrea Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the ‘hood, hoping for the American Dream. …I’m not saying it’s our story. I’m not saying it isn’t. It…

  • Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice University of Arizona Press 1998 181 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-1633-9 Kathleen M. Donovan, Professor and Department Head of English South Dakota State University, Brookings Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • In-between Places University of Arizona Press 2005 119 pages 6.0 x 9.0 2005 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2385-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2387-0 Diane Glancy, Professor of Native American Literature and Creative Writing Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota “There is a map you decide to call a book. A book of the territories you’ve traveled. A map is…

  • Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative Stanford University Press 1997 280 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804727740; ISBN-13: 9780804727747 Paper ISBN-10: 0804727759; ISBN-13: 9780804727754 Samira Kawash, Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely…

  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…

  • Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity.