Category: Monographs

  • Ten Thousand Sorrows Bantam Books 2000 240 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0553812645; ISBN-13: 978-0553812640 Elizabeth Kim ‘I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’ The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a…

  • Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 W. W. Norton & Company 1994 318 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0393034046; ISBN-13: 978-0393034042 Paperback ISBN: ISBN 978-0-393-31155-6 Yelena Khanga (with Susan Jacoby) As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the…

  • Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair Anchor an imprint of Random House 1997-02-19 320 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7 Lisa Jones In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa  Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, “Skin Trade,”  to a much larger audience. Chock full of the “fierce black girl humor” that has made…

  • The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological Development of Civilized Mankind Harcourt, Brace and Company 1921 396 pages (Digitized by Google) Samuel J. Holmes (1868-1964), Ph.D., Professor of Zoology University of California, Berkeley CONTENTS I. An Introductory Orientation II. The Hereditary Basis III. The Inheritance of Mental Defects and…

  • The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin 1997-02-10 307 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0395771919; ISBN-13: 978-0395771914 Itabari Njeri In the 1980s, when most Americans considered “black” a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and…

  • Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline.

  • Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama City Lights Books 2009-01-15 120 pages Paperback ISBN-10 0872865002; ISBN-13 9780872865006 Tim Wise Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2001 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 32 illus., 9 genealogical charts, 10 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN:  978-0-8078-5467-9 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters…

  • Far back in the dim vista of ages, anterior to the current ideas of Noah or Adam, Egyptian records show that there were four great race types, or groups; and clear and distinct as they were orginally portrayed, so have they come down to this our day. Not one has ever been merged into another.

  • Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Auckland University Press July 2013 312 pages approx 240 x 170 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-86940-731-5 Angela Wanhalla, Senior Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A history of the intimate relations between Māori and Pākehā, and the intersections of public policy…