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Category: Monographs

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

    Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Basic Books 2002 416 pages 5.3 x 1.1 x 8 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780465006403; ISBN-10: 046500640X Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean University of California, Hastings College of Law Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the “color…

  • Mary Seacole: The Black Woman Who Invented Modern Nursing

    She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

    Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…

  • Black in Latin America

    Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…

  • My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era

    My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New…

  • Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns

    Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns Temple University Press January 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 38 tables, 23 halftones paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-276-9 cloth: ISBN: 978-1-43990-275-2 e-Book ISBN: 978-1-43990-277-6 Charlton D. McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University Stephen M. Caliendo, Professor of Political Science North Central…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

    Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race University of Illinois Press 2014 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 5 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03811-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07959-7 Wanda A. Hendricks, Associate Professor of History University of South Carolina The biography of a key activist of the Progressive Era Born shortly…