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  • Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations

    Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (2008) Vol. 30, No. 2 pages 161-180 DOI: 10.1177/0739986307313116 Irene López, Assistant Professor of Psychology Kenyon College The following is a historically informed review of Puerto Rican phenotype. Geared toward educating psychologists, this review discusses how various psychological issues associated…

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.

  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

    The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging W. W. Norton May 2006 240 pages 5.8 × 8.6 in ISBN: 978-0-393-05890-1 Kym Ragusa, Professor of Nonfiction &  Professor Writing Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Inistitute of Technology A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    So begins this epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work.…

  • Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative

    Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…

  • Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid?

    Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid? Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (May 1993) pages 373-386 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00004703 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale

    The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • Lara

    Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.