Tag: Rowman & Littlefield

  • “Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience” is a collection of essays by mixed race philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the…

  • The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield July 2011 216 pages Size: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4422-1125-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4422-1127-8 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.

  • But blackness also points to a history of mixed racialization that, although always acknowledged among blacks, is rarely understood or seen among other groups. I have argued elsewhere, for instance, that to add the claim of “mixture” to blacks in both American continents would be redundant, because blacks are their primary “mixed” populations to begin…

  • Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter in: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age Rowman & Littlefield 288 pages August 1997 Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8476-8447-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-20172-6 pages 51-71 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the…

  • There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color…

  • Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…

  • In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age; an age in which cultural, intellectual, and economic forms of colonial domination persist.

  • Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2006 262 pages Cloth: 0-7391-1393-3 / 978-0-7391-1393-6 Paper: 0-7391-1394-1 / 978-0-7391-1394-3 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Through qualitative analysis of individuals, Kathleen J. Fitzgerald studies the…

  • Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide Rowman & Littlefield Paper: 0-9700-3841-0 / 978-0-9700-3841-8 June 2005 190 pages Edited by Marc Coronado DeAnza College Rudy P. Guevarra University of California, Santa Barbara Jeffrey A. S. Moniz, Associate Professor and Director University of Hawai’i Laura Furlan Szanto University of California, Santa Barbara Crossing…