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Category: Monographs

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City

    Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…

  • “Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand

    “Mixed race” is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of “mixed race” across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural,…

  • Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

    In 2009, when Raquel Cepeda almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was terrified she’d never know the truth about her ancestry. Every time she looked in the mirror, Cepeda saw a mystery—a tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix.

  • A Colored Woman in a White World

    Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American

    Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American Liveright (an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company) November 2015 320 pages 9.4 × 12.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87140-468-8 John Stauffer, Professor of English, American studies, and African American Studies Harvard University Zoe Trodd, Professor of American Literature Department of American…

  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race

    White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America

    Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

    Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Caribbean Racisms: Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Caribbean Region

    This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

  • Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity

    Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…