Category: Monographs

  • In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders Texas A&M University Press 2003 320 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-58544-346-8 John Francis Burke, Professor of Political Science and Chair University of St. Thomas, Houston Foreword by Virgilio Elizondo It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing.…

  • In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

  • In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas.

  • The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt Louisiana State University Press March 1999 312 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 9780807124529 William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to…

  • New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Louisiana State University Press 1980 240 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2035-4 Joel Williamson, Lineberger Professor in the Humanities University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present,…

  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…

  • George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life Louisiana State University Press 2001 471 Trim: 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8071-2586-1 Benjamin R. Justesen Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the…

  • Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them.

  • Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Vintage an imprint of Random House, Inc. Academic Resources 2003 688 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-70264-8 (0-375-70264-4) Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School From the author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and Race, Crime, and the Law—a tour de force…