Category: Monographs

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • For the vast majority of human existence we did without the idea of race. Since its inception a mere few hundred years ago, and despite the voluminous documentation of the problems associated with living within the racial worldview, we have come to act as if race is something we cannot live without. “The Arc of…

  • A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands

  • A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…

  • The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress…

  • Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…

  • “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.”

  • The ‘R’ Word Biteback Publishing 2015-11-27 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781849549424 eBook ISBN: 9781785900099 Kurt Barling, Professor of Journalism Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter…

  • In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self State University of New York Press April 2016 296 pages Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5977-6 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5978-3 Mariana Ortega, Professor of Philosophy John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina…

  • Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897 Liverpool University Press 2016-05-02 224 Pages 239 x 163mm Hardback ISBN: 9781781383018 Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies University of Kentucky Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism…