Month: December 2015

  • The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon University Press of Kansas June 2015 400 pages 7 illustrations, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2100-2 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2101-9 Amy M. Ware Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And…

  • A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share.

  • Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…

  • J.R. Reynolds: Say it loud: He’s black and I’m proud Battle Creek Enquirer Battle Creek, Michigan 2015-12-07 J.R. Reynolds, Community Columnist J.R. Reynolds Until my 2-year-old son is old enough to self-identify racially, I’ve declared him black. I’m raising him African American. Socially and legally. This, despite him being half white. Why? It’s in his…

  • Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People University of North Carolina Press April 2015 Approx. 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 17 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index Paper: ISBN 978-1-4696-2105-0 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadas Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men…

  • Through its author’s contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring racial tropes—the ‘monstrous hybrid’, the ‘tropical temptress’, the ‘tragic mulatto/a’, and the ‘mulatto legend of history’, Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti’s revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day…

  • Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night…

  • “Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.

  • “She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis

  • They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid Zócalo Public Square 2015-11-19 Maya Soetoro-Ng (Photo by Kenna Reed) Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng Wants America to Make Room for Complexity Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii…