Tag: Cambridge University Press

  • This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton’s classic book reviews historical theories of racial and ethnic relations and contemporary struggles to supersede them. It shows how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century concepts of race attempted to explain human difference in terms of race as a permanent type and how these were followed by social scientific…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…

  • The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars Cambridge University Press September 1993 396 pages 228 x 152 mm ISBN: 9780521458757 DOI: 10.2277/0521458757 Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press January 2009 348 pages 228 x 152 mm; 0.6kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521884655 Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Professor of Modern History Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in…

  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…

  • In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into ‘mixed’ marriages are especially difficult.

  • Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group.