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  • An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930

    How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930

  • We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity

    We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity Temple University Press January 2000 304 pages 7×10 5 tables 5 figures Paper EAN: 978-1-56639-723-0; ISBN: 1-56639-723-5 edited by Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Dean of Math and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Brigham Young…

  • Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans

    Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.

  • Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

    West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging

  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

    The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…

  • Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music

    Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music Temple University Press December 2009 238 pp 6×9 1 figure 5 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-090-1; ISBN: 1-4399-0090-6 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-089-5; ISBN: 1-4399-0089-2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Tufts University Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como…

  • How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity

    How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity Temple University Press 1999 264 pages 6×9 EAN: 978-1-56639-651-6 ISBN: 1-56639-651-4 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question…

  • Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriage

    “Love’s Revolution” traces the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices and false beliefs that oppress racially mixed families.

  • Hapa Girl: A Memoir

    Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…