Tag: University of Minnesota Press

  • The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico University of Minnesota Press June 2012 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5637-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5636-3 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Pittsburgh The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been…

  • “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…

  • Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story University of Minnesota Press 2010 272 pages 23 b&w plates, 6 x 9 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2 George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer,…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction University of Minnesota Press July 2012 336 pages 9 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7099-4 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-7098-7 Diana Rebekkah Paulin, Associate Professor of English and American Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century…

  • Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England University of Minnesota Press 2010 296 pages 25 b&w photos, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6578-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6577-8 Jean M. O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) Professor of History University of Minnesota Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote…

  • The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…

  • The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing University of Minnesota Press 2006 288 pages 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4786-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4786-6 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4785-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4785-9 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature University of Pittsburgh Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity.…

  • A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history.

  • In “Pure Beauty,” Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O’Riain employs rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity.