Month: November 2014

  • Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.

  • Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution University of Illinois Press July 2014 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 10 black & white photographs, 1 chart Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance…

  • The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…

  • A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…