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  • Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review)

    Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093/fh/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978…

  • Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review]

    Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review] H-net Reviews H-SAfrica April 2007 Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of History Loyola University Maryland James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59221-246-0. Based…

  • Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority [Andrews Review]

    Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority [Andrews Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 918-919 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.758864 Matthew T. M. Andrews Department of Sociology University of Michigan Andrew J. Jolivétte (ed), Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, Bristol: Policy…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery (review)

    Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 126, Number 499, Winter 2013 pages 95-96 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2013.0006 David Steven Cohen This book from the University of North Carolina Press raises important questions about which groups are and are…

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

    Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (review) Journal of Social History Volume 33, Number 3, Spring 2000 pages 753-755 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2000.0037 Joshua D. Rothman, Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. Edited by Martha Hodes (New York and London: New York University…

  • The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity [review]

    The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity [review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 3, 2013 Special Issue: Racialization and Religion: Race, culture and difference in the study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia pages 517-518 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.737929 Robin Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies University of Oxford Michael J. Monahan, The Creolizing…

  • Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging [Kate Reed Review]

    Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging [Kate Reed Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 3, 2013 Special Issue: Racialization and Religion: Race, culture and difference in the study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia pages 517-518 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.734393 Kate Reed, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology University of Sheffield Katharina…

  • Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil

    Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil Latin American Perspectives Issue 178, Volume 38, Number 3 (May 2011) pages 194-208 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10390624 Bernadete Ramos Beserra, Professor Federal University of Ceará Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Review]

    Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…

  • White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 [Wintz Review]

    White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 [Wintz Review] White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, Michael Phillips, (The University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX, 78713-7819) 2006. Contents. Illus. Notes. Biblio. Index. P. 267. East Texas Historical Journal Volume XLV (45), Number 2, Fall 2007 Cary D. Wintz,…