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Month: December 2015

  • Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels

    Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates…

  • White Dads

    White Dads Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-16 Sarah Gladstone Being brown and having a white dad means something, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Right now, I’m working on an anthology project—“WHITE DADS: Stories and experiences told by people of color, fathered by white men.” I’ve been loving the ways people are taking this…

  • John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance

    John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. Political…

  • Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice

    Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice Routledge 2013-05-13 24 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81970-1 Edited by: Ximena Zuniga, Associate Professor in Social Justice Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gretchen Lopez, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program and Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Kristie Ford, Director of…

  • The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright

    The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright Edwin Mellen Press 2013 176 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-4077-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4077-7 Steven Troy Moore, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas This book examines the contrasting experiences of black rage that is exhibited in the writings of…

  • The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hackett Publishing Company March 2013 ca. 152 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-60384-853-3; 978-1-60384-853-4 Paper ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Examination ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Edited by: John Charles Chasteen, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Accompanied by a thorough…

  • The Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us

    Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy—by cracking the genome of her own family.

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem

    Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…