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  • Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye

    Love and Race Caught in the Public Eye ND Newswire University of Notre Dame 2001-05-31 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame Earl Lewis, Provost Emory University Lovers seek to create a place that they can inhabit together against the obstacles of the world. Marriage promises that they will live in…

  • An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege

    The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.

  • Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

    Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America’s most sacred beliefs and prejudices.

  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

    The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 384 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-33029-8 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University Finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize. Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary…

  • White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South

    This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men.

  • Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

    Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico Yale University Press 2004-04-10 252 pages 8 1/2 x 11 100 b/w +100 color illus. Paper ISBN: 9780300109719 Cloth ISBN: 9780300102413 Ilona Katzew, Associate Curator of Latin American Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art Selected for Honorable Mention for a 2003-2004 Book Award given by the…

  • Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

    Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country University Press of Mississippi 1994 192 pages Paper ISBN: 0878059490, ISBN 13: 9780878059492 Carl A. Brasseaux, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism University of Louisiana, Lafayette Claude F. Oubre Keith P. Fontenot Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of…

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

    Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law University of North Carolina Press December 2009 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3318-6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-0727-6 Fay Botham, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Iowa In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United…

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…