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  • The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

    The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States Praeger Publishers 2000-11-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00033-1 Ursula M. Brown, Psychotherapist in Private Practice Montclair, New Jersey, USA The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic,…

  • The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together?

    The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together? University Press of America June 2005 204 pages Paper 0-7618-3213-0 / 978-0-7618-3213-3 Janis Faye Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Houston Race and racism are interconnected historically and in the modern world. This connection is related to changing social, political, and economic conditions…

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe

    Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe Africa World Press May 2004 300 pages SKU: 1592212648 ISBN: 1592212648 James Muzondidya, Senior Research Specialist of Democracy and Governance Human Sciences Research Council This book examines the history of the Coloured or “mixed race” community of Zimbabwe, a group that has…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…

  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8  Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition)

    Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Hapa Girl: A Memoir

    Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…