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  • Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…

  • The Age of Jim Crow

    The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…

  • Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature

    Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature University of Exeter Press 2001 292 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780859896498 BIC Code: 1HFD, 2ADF, 3JF, 3JH, 3JJ Roger Little Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary…

  • Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity

    Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity Prometheus Books 2009-12-22 336 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59102-767-6 Guy P. Harrison The concept of race has had a powerful impact on history and continues to shape the world today in profound ways. Most people derive their attitudes about race from their family, culture, and…

  • Incorrigible

    On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child.

  • Intermarriage across Race and Ethnicity among Immigrants: E Pluribus Unions

    Intermarriage across Race and Ethnicity among Immigrants: E Pluribus Unions LFB Scholarly Publishing November 2008 228 pages 5.5 X 8.5 / viii Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-59332-294-6 Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brigham Young University Morgan examines the relationship between assimilation and intermarriage. In studying mixed relationships, he finds that ethnicity, in the form of…

  • Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family

    Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family University of California Press May 2001 Paperback ISBN: 9780520227309 321 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 25 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations Neil Henry, Associate Professor of Journalism University of California, Berkeley Pearl’s Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history,…

  • The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys

    The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys University of Hawai’i Press October 2010 224 pages 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3371-8 John D. Palmer, Associate Professor of Educational Studies Colgate University Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who…

  • Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration

    Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration  M. E. Sharpe November 2002 272 pages Tables, figures, references, index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-0800-0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-0801-7 Dvora Yanow, Professor of Public Affairs & Administration California State University, East Bay 2004 Best Book Award, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public…

  • The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family 1660-1900

    The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…