Category: United States

  • Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…

  • The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon University Press of Kansas June 2015 400 pages 7 illustrations, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2100-2 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2101-9 Amy M. Ware Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And…

  • A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.

  • J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan 2015-12-07 J.R. Reynolds, Community Columnist J.R. Reynolds Until my 2-year-old son is old enough to self-identify racially, I’ve declared him black. I’m raising him African American. Socially and legally. This, despite him being half white. Why? It’s in his…

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People University of North Carolina Press April 2015 Approx. 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 17 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index Paper: ISBN 978-1-4696-2105-0 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadas Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men…

  • “Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.

  • They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid Zócalo Public Square 2015-11-19 Maya Soetoro-Ng (Photo by Kenna Reed) Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng Wants America to Make Room for Complexity Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii…

  • When Louisiana Creoles Arrived in Texas, Were They Black or White? Zócalo Public Square 2015-12-15 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Tyina Steptoe’s book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, was published by the University of California Press in 2015. Mixed-Race Migrants Came to Houston for Jobs and…

  • Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City University of California Press November 2015 320 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780520282575 Paperback ISBN: 9780520282582 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Beginning after World War I and continuing throughout the twentieth century, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of…