Category: Monographs

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity University of Massachusetts Press December 2012 176 pages 6 x9; 6 illustrations ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-985-0 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-984-3 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles A timely exploration of gender and mixed race in American culture This…

  • A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic Harvard University Press February 2003 334 pages 6 x 9-15/16 inches Hardcove ISBN: 9780674009462 Bruce Dain, Associate Professor of History University of Utah The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated…

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story University of Minnesota Press 2010 272 pages 23 b&w plates, 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer,…

  • The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives SUNY Press October 2006 244 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6893-3; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6893-7 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6894-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6894-4 eBook ISBN10: 0-7914-8106-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8106-6 Marla Brettschneider, Professor of Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Science & Women’s Studies University of New Hampshire Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Gay/Lesbian…

  • The Myth of Race Argo-Navis 2012-11-27 154 pages 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0786754362; ISBN-13: 978-0786754366 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York City The Myth of Race deals concisely with a wide range of topics, from how the concept of race differs in different cultures and race…

  • In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entrepreneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.

  • In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation.

  • The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won Palgrave Macmillan August 2010 178 pages DOI: 10.1057/9780230111790 ebook ISBN: 9780230111790 Paperback ISBN: 9780230103511 Hardback ISBN: 9780230314603 Baodong Liu, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Utah This book examines the historical election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president from the perspective of racial relations.…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán Stanford University Press 2009 456 pages 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. Cloth ISBN: 9780804749831 Matthew Restall, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies Pennsylvania State University The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and…