Category: Monographs

  • Race and Mixed Race Temple University Press October 1993 232 pages 6×9 paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9      Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to…

  • Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Duke University Press 1998 272 pages 13 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2105-X, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-2105-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-2120-3, ISBN13 978-0-8223-2120-0 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor, African and African American Studies Duke University Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction…

  • Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad Duke University Press October 2004 280 pages 9 b&w photos, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3376-7, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3376-0 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3388-0, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3388-3 Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a…

  • America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide University of Michigan Press 2007 296 oages 6 x 9. 296 pgs. 1 table Cloth: 978-0-472-11609-6 Paper: 978-0-472-03320-1 Ebook Formats: 978-0-472-02175-8 Ronald Fernandez, Professor of Sociology Criminal Justice Department Central Connecticut State University For the first time in U.S.…

  • Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus SUNY Press July 2004 308 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6163-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6163-1 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6164-5; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6164-8 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor Michigan State University Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students. Kristen A. Renn offers a new…

  • Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…

  • Recasting Race: women of mixed heritage in further education Trentham Books January 2008 160 pages 234 x 156mm ISBN: 9781858564050 ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 405 0 Indra Angeli Dewan Department of Sociology University of East London The mixed race population has shown an unprecedented increase in Britain in the last few years, and mixed race…

  • Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America University of Michigan Press 2006 208 pages 6 x 9; 11 Tables & 8 Figures. Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at the Hatfield School of Government Portland State University, Portland,…

  • Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to…

  • How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity?  This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”