Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Age of Jim Crow

    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…

  • Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature

    Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature University of Exeter Press 2001 292 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780859896498 BIC Code: 1HFD, 2ADF, 3JF, 3JH, 3JJ Roger Little Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes.  It is the first book to explore the literary…

  • Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity

    Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Cultural Diversity Prometheus Books 2009-12-22 336 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59102-767-6 Guy P. Harrison The concept of race has had a powerful impact on history and continues to shape the world today in profound ways. Most people derive their attitudes about race from their family, culture, and…

  • The Obama Issue

    The Obama Issue Journal of Visual Culture August 2009 Volume 8, No. 2 Online ISSN: 1741-2994 Print ISSN: 1470-4129 The August 2009 edition of Journal of Visual Culture is focused on president Barack Obama. Table of Contents Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group Questionnaire on Barack Obama pp. 123-124 W.J.T. Mitchell Obama as Icon pp.…

  • Intermarriage across Race and Ethnicity among Immigrants: E Pluribus Unions

    Intermarriage across Race and Ethnicity among Immigrants: E Pluribus Unions LFB Scholarly Publishing November 2008 228 pages 5.5 X 8.5 / viii Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-59332-294-6 Charlie V. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brigham Young University Morgan examines the relationship between assimilation and intermarriage. In studying mixed relationships, he finds that ethnicity, in the form of…

  • The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys

    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…

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life

    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…

  • Family Values in the Old South

    Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

    The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture.

  • Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.