Category: History

  • The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes: an Advocate’s Chronicle University of Oklahoma Press May 1998 384 pages 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 0806130431; ISBN-13: 978-0806130439 Parker M. Nielson This book is out of print. In The Dispossessed, Parker M. Nielson chronicles the tragic story of the mixed-blood Utes. A leading Utah…

  • Last Child Henry Holt and Company (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2005 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-7739-1, ISBN10: 0-8050-7739-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4299-3709-2, ISBN10: 1-4299-3709-2 Michael Spooner, Director Utah State University Press A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used…

  • America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the…

  • New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…

  • Native, Aboriginal, Indigenous: Who Counts as Indian in Post Apartheid Virginia Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Scholarship of Diversity, Conference Proceedings Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia April 2004 17 pages Jay Hansford C. Vest, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies University of North Carolina, Pembroke In 1948, sociologist William Gilbert wrote: “Indian blood still remains noticeable in…

  • Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge University of Nebraska Press 2004 357 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-2187-1 Jerry Gershenhorn, Professor of History North Carolina Central University Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world…

  • School for Tricksters: A Novel in Stories Texas A&M University Press Consortium (Southern Methodist University Press) 2011-01-11 248 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87074-563-8 Chris Gavaler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia This is a novel in stories depicting radical incidents of racial crossing in the early twentieth century. The alternating…

  • Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…