Category: Monographs

  • Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa New York University Press July 2013 254 pages 4 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780814762646 Paper ISBN: 9781479897322 Yuichiro Onishi, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which…

  • Puerto Rico is often depicted as a “racial democracy” in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In “Remixing Reggaetón,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy’s privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.

  • The Femme Fatale in American Literature Cambria Press 2008-09-28 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm ISBN: 9781604975352 Ghada Suleiman Sasa, Assistant Professor of English Literature Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are…

  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…

  • Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon 2015-09-08 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453 eBook ISBN: Margo Jefferson At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from…

  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship University of South Carolina Press June 2015 224 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61117-532-5 Robert E. Terrill, Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington An examination of President Obama’s oratory as a reflection of the…

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology University of California Press August 2015 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520276352 Adobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520960480 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520960480 Aldon D. Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois In this groundbreaking book, Aldon…

  • In “Wrongs of the Right,” Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans.

  • Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Da Capo Press 2003 224 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780756793401 Paperback ISBN: 9780738209500 Donna Jackson Nakazawa “Am I black or white or am I American?” “Why don’t my eyes look like yours?” “Why do people always call attention to my ‘different’ hair?” Helping…

  • The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover Palgrave Macmillan December 2014 268 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137484093 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137484116 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137484109 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born a Eurasian ‘half-caste‘ in Calcutta in 1904, Cedric…