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  • Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture

    Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna’s ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The responses reveal as much about our own national and regional anxieties…

  • Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges

    Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges Praeger March 2016 415 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9978-1-4408-3369-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3370-0 Edited by: Margaret Foegen Karsten, Professor of Human Resource Management; Internship Coordinator School of Business University of Wisconsin, Platteville For America to prosper, organizations need to address disparate treatment…

  • Yale French Studies, Number 128: Revisiting Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine

    This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond.

  • Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls

    Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls Harlem Moon (an imprint of Broadway Books) 2004 224 pages Edited by: Rebecca Carroll W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem…

  • Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

    “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora

    Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience

    “Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience” is a collection of essays by mixed race philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the…

  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

    This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

  • Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion

    Passing for what you are not—whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women–can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing’s radical playfulness, the…