Category: Monographs

  • An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…

  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism Duke University Press 2001 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9 Roberto Schwarz Translated by: John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work…

  • The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis. A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro Francis Cairns Publications 1984 215 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-905205-19-9 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the…

  • The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race New York University Press 2016-07-26 224 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479853717 Paper ISBN: 9781479819256 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope McFarland 2013 204 pages softcover (6 x 9) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6793-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0339-1 Mark S. Ferrara, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Oneonta The historical and literary antecedents of the President’s campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world.…

  • This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre.

  • Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren’t Black Jacana Media October 2013 256 pages 198 x 130mm Paperback ISBN: 9781920601287 d-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294 ePUB ISBN: 9781920601300 mobi file ISBN: 9781920601317 Hagen Engler White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a…

  • End of Whiteness: Satanism & Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa Jacana Media March 2016 240 pages 235x155mm Paperback ISBN: 9781431423279 Nicky Falkof, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Satanism and family murder – bizarre responses to fear of change. This book examines the effects that apartheid may…

  • “JewAsian” is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American.