Category: Monographs

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Duke University Press October 2012 280 pages 5 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5344-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5329-4 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in…

  • Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America Harvard University Press April 2013 250 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674045835 François Weil, Chancellor and Professor of History; former president of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Universities of Paris The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the…

  • Under the Skin Finch Publishing August 2012 210 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781921462801 Marion van Dyk This beautifully written and evocative memoir is a fascinating insight into the lives of her family, living under apartheid, who struggled to create a sense of identity and personal worth. It’s a book of historical relevance in its revelations about…

  • At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire

  • Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.

  • Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…

  • “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race New York University Press October 2011 229 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780814752975 Paperback ISBN: 9780814752982 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.  In the weeks…

  • An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…