Category: Monographs

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race University of Georgia Press 2002-12-02 280 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2435-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-2724-2 Dean McWilliams (1939-2006), J. Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and professor of English Ohio University The first extended exploration of the construction of racial identity in Chesnutt’s writings Charles…

  • Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interracial contact began. And with this profound new study, she explores its old limits and new possibilities: from women passing as men and able-bodied persons passing as disabled to black classics professors passing as Jewish and…

  • In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…

  • The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013 208 pages Paper ISBN-10: 0-312-60762-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60762-3 George Appo (1856-1930) Edited with an Introduction by: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Professor of History Loyola University, Chicago Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to…

  • In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.

  • Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical Oxford University Press October 2012 328 pages ISBN13: 9780199759378; ISBN10: 0199759375 Todd Decker, Assistant Professor, Musicology Washington University in St. Louis Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • This book investigates the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in higher education in Britain, and it is the first to explore the identifications and experiences of various types of mixed race individuals. It reveals the diverse ways in which these young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex…

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…

  • “The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.