Category: Monographs

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition) The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina 1916 65 pages George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Tampathia Evans and…

  • Taking a social psychological approach, this book identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping racial identity. Unlike previous studies which examine racial identity as if it was a one-dimensional concept, this book examines two dimensions of identity—a public dimension (how they identify themselves to others) and an internalized dimension (how they see themselves internally)—noting…

  • George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…

  • Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…

  • Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington   Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…

  • Doubters and Dreamers University of Arizona Press 2011 96 pages 5.50 in x 8.50 in Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2927-8 Janice Gould Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?”…

  • Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”

  • Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England University of Minnesota Press 2010 296 pages 25 b&w photos, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6578-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6577-8 Jean M. O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) Professor of History University of Minnesota Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote…