Category: United States

  • The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…

  • What Answer? Prometheus Books Originally Published in 1868 316 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59102-050-9 Anna E. Dickinson With an Introduction by J. Matthew Gallman, Professor of History University of Florida This first and only novel by Anna E. Dickinson, a well-known 19th-century orator, abolitionist, and advocate of racial equality and women’s rights, attracted tremendous interest when…

  • Bayou Folk Prometheus Books Originally Published by Houghton Mifflin in 1894 Pages: 286 Paperback ISBN: 1-57392-975-1 Kate Chopin The author who today is probably best known for her novel The Awakening initially established her literary reputation with short stories about life in rural Louisiana during the late nineteenth century. Born Katherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis,…

  • Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family University of California Press May 2001 Paperback ISBN: 9780520227309 321 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 25 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations Neil Henry, Associate Professor of Journalism University of California, Berkeley Pearl’s Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history,…

  • The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys University of Hawai’i Press October 2010 224 pages 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3371-8 John D. Palmer, Associate Professor of Educational Studies Colgate University Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who…

  • Constructing “Race” and “Ethnicity” in America: Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration  M. E. Sharpe November 2002 272 pages Tables, figures, references, index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-0800-0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-0801-7 Dvora Yanow, Professor of Public Affairs & Administration California State University, East Bay 2004 Best Book Award, Section on Public Administration Research, American Society for Public…

  • The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…

  • A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone Texas Tech University Press September 2008 272 pages 35 B/W photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-89672-635-2 Shirley Gordon Jackson with introduction by Maceo C. Dailey, Jr., Professor of African American Studies University of Texas El Paso The enlightening memoir of one  multiethnic family’s struggles and triumphs. Before…

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2005-02-21 Associated Press Advertisers are filling commercials with a mix of races and ethnicities, but critics contend such utopian situations rarely exist. Somewhere there’s an America that’s full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families…

  • Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…