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  • 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…

  • Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family

    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 People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family 1660-1900

    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…

  • We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History

    We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia, A 200-Year Family History University of Virginia Press 1992 304 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 52 b&w illustrations Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-2371-0 T. O. Madden, Jr. (1903-2000) with Ann L. Miller, Historian Virginia Transportation Research Council Foreword by Nell Irvin Painter In August of 1758, in…

  • 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.

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848

    Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation

    Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson…

  • Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness

    Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness University of North Carolina Press April 2009 408 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3268-4 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5939-1 Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Assistant Professor of History Kent State University In 1925 Leonard [Kip] Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…