Category: Monographs

  • A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone Texas Tech University Press September 2008 272 pages 35 B/W photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-89672-635-2 Shirley Gordon Jackson with introduction by Maceo C. Dailey, Jr., Professor of African American Studies University of Texas El Paso The enlightening memoir of one  multiethnic family’s struggles and triumphs. Before…

  • Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…

  • We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History University of Virginia Press 1992 304 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 52 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-2371-0 T. O. Madden, Jr. (1903-2000) with Ann L. Miller, Historian Virginia Transportation Research Council Foreword by Nell Irvin Painter In August of 1758, in…

  • The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…

  • A stunning exploration of America’s attitudes on interracial marriage.

  • Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson…

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness University of North Carolina Press April 2009 408 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3268-4 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5939-1 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Assistant Professor of History Kent State University In 1925 Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…