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Category: Anthologies

  • Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era Univerisity of Illinois Press October 2003 256 pages Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.  Illustrations: 11 Line Drawings, 11 Tables Paper ISBN: 978-1-929011-26-1 Edited by: Cedric Herring, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago Verna M. Keith, Professor of Socilology Florida State University Hayward Derrick…

  • Counseling Multiple Heritage Individuals, Couples and Families

    This book examines the strengths of and the challenges facing multiple heritage individuals, couples, and families and offers a framework for best practice counseling services and interventions specifically designed to meet their needs.

  • American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries

    American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries Xlibris Press 2008 263 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-7705-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-7705-8 (Trade Paperback 6×9) Eliud Martínez, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside In many parts of the country, especially in California, when one passes by a school or strolls across…

  • Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America

    “Confounding the Color Line” is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America. Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex…

  • Working with Multiracial Students: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practice

    Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts.

  • A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach

    A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach Carolina Academic Press 2001 864 pages ISBN-10: 0-89089-735-2 ISBN: 978-0-89089-735-5 LCCN: 2001092052 Timothy Davis, W. and Ruth H. Turnage Professor of Law Wake Forest University Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Race Law Stories

    Race Law Stories Foundation Press 2008 624 pages ISBN-13: 9781599410012 Edited by Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Devon Wayne Carbado, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Race Law Stories brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions—hidden gems—that address slavery, Native American…

  • Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

    Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America’s most sacred beliefs and prejudices.

  • Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation

    Volumes 1 and 2 of this 3 volume set collect the major contributions to the scientific debate on the unity of the human race in the 1850s, focusing particularly on the idea of hybridity. Volume 3 republishes the major contributions to the political debate on miscegenation.