Category: Monographs

  • This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.

  • The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.

  • “Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone” tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.

  • Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century Lexington Books: an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield October 2009 262 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3842-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3843-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3844-1 Jason D. Hill, Professor of Philosophy DePaul University Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood…

  • In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.

  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…

  • The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers…

  • The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico University of Minnesota Press June 2012 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5637-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5636-3 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Pittsburgh The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been…

  • “Pig Candy” is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he’d escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed “Black, White, Other,” comes to understand…