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  • The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants

    Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.

  • Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    In “Articulate While Black,” two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama’s language use—and America’s response to it

  • The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C.

    “The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor in the Case of Black Washington, D.C.” considers the function of oral history in shaping community dynamics among African American residents of the nation’s capitol.

  • The White African American Body

    The White African American Body Rutgers University Press March 2002 240 pages 30 b&w illus. Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3032-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3031-4 Charles D. Martin Explores the image of the white Negro in American popular culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies…

  • The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930

    The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930 Oxford University Press January 2012 288 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199697700; ISBN10: 0199697701 Satoshi Mizutani From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness…

  • Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru

    Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru University of Pittsburgh Press April 2012 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper  ISBN: 9780822961932 Rachel Sarah O’Toole, Associate Professor of History University of California, Irvine Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah…

  • From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008

    From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008 University of Missouri Press 2012 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8262-1977-0 Dennis Nordin In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American…

  • Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

    Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition University of Nebraska Press 2012 680 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-3792-6 John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré, Associate Professor of English Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction

    Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction University of Minnesota Press July 2012 336 pages 9 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7099-4 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-7098-7 Diana Rebekkah Paulin, Associate Professor of English and American Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century…

  • American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama

    American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama HarperCollins 2012-06-19 400 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 9780061999864; ISBN10: 0061999865 Rachel L. Swarns, Correspondent New York Times A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a…