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  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • Four Statements on the Race Question

    Four Statements on the Race Question United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1969 54 pages Foreword This booklet reproduces the texts of four statements on the race question prepared by groups of experts brought together by Unesco in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1967, as part of its programme to make known the scientific…

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge 2013-10-04 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-81394-5 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81393-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-06779-6 Edited by: Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Kevern Verney, Professor of American History Edge Hill University Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of Government University of Manchester The…

  • Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America

    Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

  • Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe

    Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe Routledge 2014-04-02 264 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3 Edited by: Michael McEachrane Foreword by: Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature King’s College, London Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that…

  • William Wells Brown: A Reader

    William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…

  • Global Mixed Race

    Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • Passing Interest: Racial Passing in US Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990–2010

    Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

  • The Octoroon

    In “The Octoroon”—the most controversial play of his career—Boucicault addresses the sensitive topic of race and slavery. George Peyton inherits a plantation, and falls in love with an octoroon—a person one-eighth African American, and thus, in 1859 Louisiana, legally a slave.