Category: Monographs

  • First detailed study of “literary race” in eighteenth-century America

  • Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 University of Minnesota Press September 2015 368 pages 32 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7303-2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7302-5 Melissa N. Stein, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Kentucky From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American…

  • European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…

  • Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins—and the mechanisms that perpetuate these strata across generations.

  • Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…

  • Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Yale University Press 2013-01-08 424 pages 64 b/w illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300124347 Barbara Ransby, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, African American Studies & History University of Illinois, Chicago Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the…

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk University of North Carolina Press August 2015 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7 Stephanie J. Shaw, Professor of History Ohio State University In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American…

  • In “The Color of Our Future,” young journalist Farai Chideya explores how members of the next generation deal with race in their own lives and how the decisions they make determine America’s ethnic future.

  • The Souls of Black Folk Yale University Press 2015-06-30 (Originally published in 1903) 240 pages 18 b/w illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paper ISBN: 9780300195828 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Introduction and Chronology by: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies; Dean of Yale College…

  • Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…