Day: November 19, 2009

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2005-02-21 Associated Press Advertisers are filling commercials with a mix of races and ethnicities, but critics contend such utopian situations rarely exist. Somewhere there’s an America that’s full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families…

  • Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Ohio State University Press July 2008 224 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8142-5168-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1091-8 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9171-9 Margo Natalie Crawford, Associate Professor of English Cornell University After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light…

  • Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent San Diego State University First Published: 1999 Reprint: 2006 120 pages ISBN 1-23456-789-0 Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College The construction of certain behaviors and physical characteristics into an acceptable and recognized “identity”…