Month: September 2012

  • Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America Princeton University Press 2011 320 pages 6 x 9; 5 halftones; 36 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691142630 eBook ISBN: 9781400839766 Desmond S. King, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government University of Oxford Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science University of…

  • White Mothers of Biracial Sons and Daughters in U.S. Schools:  Colliding, Colluding, and Contending with White Privilege Jennifer Little, a Ph.D. candidate in the Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service program at Cardinal Stritch University, is looking to build out her list of mothers to interview for her dissertation—which is titled “White Mothers…

  • Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…

  • Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2012-09-25 Electa Draper Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community. The community is changing. It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish…

  • From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family Fordham University Press May 2012 310 pages 6 x 9 25 Black and White Illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780823239504 James H. Johnston, Lawyer and Writer Washington, D.C. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family…

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to…

  • David Domke & Christopher Parker: Obama, the Tea Party, and Racism Town Hall Seattle Great Hall; enter on Eight Avenue 2012-09-24, 19:30-21:00 PDT (Local Time) David Domke, Chair of the University of Washington Department of Communications and a winner of the school’s Distinguished Teaching Award, believes President Barack Obama has been subjected to historically unprecedented…

  • The Eurasian Face Blacksmith Books November 2010 140 pages 70+ b/w images Bilingual: English/Chinese 20.5 x 31 cm Hardcover ISBN: 978-988-99799-9-7 Kirsteen Zimmern No one represents diversity better than Eurasians—those individuals with a mix of Caucasian and Asian heritage. Once a source of shame, the Eurasian face has become the face that sells. It is…

  • The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of…