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  • 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…

  • Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

    In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. “Visible Identities” fills this gap.

  • Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation

    Volumes 1 and 2 of this 3 volume set collect the major contributions to the scientific debate on the unity of the human race in the 1850s, focusing particularly on the idea of hybridity. Volume 3 republishes the major contributions to the political debate on miscegenation.

  • 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…

  • Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears – Her Life and Writings

    This biography details the life of Bessie Head – a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad because her father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a…