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  • The Mismeasure of Man

    The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure…

  • The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West

    One of the American West’s bloodiest—and least-known—massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.

  • A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

    In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.

  • A Little Too Much Is Enough

    Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories.

  • Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992

    Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 W. W. Norton & Company 1994 318 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0393034046; ISBN-13: 978-0393034042 Paperback ISBN: ISBN 978-0-393-31155-6 Yelena Khanga (with Susan Jacoby) As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the…

  • Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White

    When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into…

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

    Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated)

    Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated) W. W. Norton & Company June 2010 288 pages 5.5 × 8.25 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-33685-6 by Angela Glover Blackwell Stewart Kwoh Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Cruz With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now…

  • Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

    With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.