Tag: Princeton University Press

  • 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…

  • Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Princeton University Press 2010 178 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780691137308 eBook ISBN: 9781400834198 Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award,…

  • Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Princeton University Press 2011 368 pages 6 x 9; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps Paper ISBN: 9780691123172 Cloth ISBN: 9780691123165 eBook ISBN: 9781400840410 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University In…

  • Looking at the history of racial thinking, “Becoming Yellow” explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race.

  • Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Princeton University Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9, 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps ISBN13: 978-0-691-13379-9 Heide Fehrenbach, Presidential Research Professor of History Northern Illinois University When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with…

  • But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?

  • his is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

  • Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Princeton University Press 2004 376 pages 6 x 9, 142 halftones. Paperback ISBN: 9780691113050 Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.  From…