Tag: Rutgers University Press

  • Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 246 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English University of Virginia Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of…

  • How Jews Became White Folks and What That says about Race in America Rutgers University Press 1998-10-01 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-2589-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2590-7 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles A wide-ranging and provocative assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. We…

  • The White African American Body Rutgers University Press March 2002 240 pages 30 b&w illus. Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3032-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3031-4 Charles D. Martin Explores the image of the white Negro in American popular culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rutgers University Press June 2012 256 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780813552835, ISBN: 0813552834 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780813552842, ISBN: 0813552842 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical…

  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”

  • José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race Rutgers University Press 2011-05-07 142 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5063-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5064 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5104-3 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans—a…

  • According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged.

  • “Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.

  • Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…