Category: History

  • Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd Edition Routledge Publication Date: 1994-03-22 240 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-90864-1 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara First published in 1986, Racial Formation…

  • Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela Critique of Anthropology (2002) Vol. 22, No. 3 pages 257-282 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X02022003758 Iveris Luz Martínez Johns Hopkins University In this article I argue that the nation is not only invented or imagined, but depends on activities and practices in order to be invented and…

  • Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific University of Hawai’i Press July 2009 304 pages 15 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3342-8 Fiona Paisley, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia Perspectives on the Global Past Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (PPWA) has witnessed…

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

  • 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 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…

  • Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy The American Historical Review 2005 Volume 110, Number 2 Saliha Belmessous, Research Fellow of History University of Syndey Although the idea of race is increasingly being historicized, its emergence in the context of French colonization remains shadowy. This is despite the fact that colonization was…

  • 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…

  • African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation University Press of America June 2004 136 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 / 978-0-7618-2858-7 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased…

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…