Month: November 2011

  • Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 344 pages 11 halftones, 2 line drawings Hardback ISBN: 9780801886942; Paperback ISBN: 9780801898198 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian…

  • Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Journal of Caribbean History Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996) pages 28-50 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin This article examines the social and political construction of race in French colonial Saint-Domingue. After 1763 white…

  • Hybrid Zones: Representations of Race in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture University of Kansas April 2011 358 pages Publication Number: AAT 3456911 ISBN: 9781124667348 Rozanne McGrew Stringer In this study, I examine images of the black female and black male body and the female Spanish Gypsy by four artists—Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and…

  • The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed-Blood Utes: an Advocate’s Chronicle University of Oklahoma Press May 1998 384 pages 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches ISBN-10: 0806130431; ISBN-13: 978-0806130439 Parker M. Nielson This book is out of print. In The Dispossessed, Parker M. Nielson chronicles the tragic story of the mixed-blood Utes. A leading Utah…

  • Last Child Henry Holt and Company (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2005 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-7739-1, ISBN10: 0-8050-7739-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4299-3709-2, ISBN10: 1-4299-3709-2 Michael Spooner, Director Utah State University Press A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used…

  • Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance Palgrave an (imprint of Macmillan) May 2007 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-1-4039-8640-5, ISBN10: 1-4039-8640-1 Lynette Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Royal Holloway, University of London Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women’s plays and performance since the…

  • America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the…

  • New Christians/’New Whites’: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760-1789 Chapter (pages 314-332) in: The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Berghahn Books 2001 592 pages Pb ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2; Hb ISBN 978-1-57181-153-0 Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering Chapter Author: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor…

  • Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World Texas A&M University Press 2010-07-12 168 pages 6 x 9, Illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60344-192-6 Edited by: John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Christopher Morris, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With the recent election of the nation’s first…

  • Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation Harvard University Press February 2012 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map Hardcover ISBN 9780674047747 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law University of Michigan Jean M. Hébrard, Historian and Visiting Professor…