In this book the author examines the interpretations of blackness and whiteness fostered in American imagination to explore how individuals become racial subjects.
From the dust jacket. In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperial ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the non…
"World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking and cultural politics. Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at travel across national borders--as a foreigner, a t…
"Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. The Preacher and the Politician argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nominat…
Studies the presence of Chinese immigrants in Arizona and Sonora in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Race: a philosophical introduction
"Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meanings offers a provocative look at what it means to belong in modern socialist Cuba. Drawn from her extensive travels throughout Cuba over the past decade, author L. Kaifa Roland pulls back the curtain on a countr…
First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
Race, crime and resistance draws on contemporary theory and a range of case studies to consider racial inequalities within the criminal justice system and related organisations.
Examines how the structures of racialization reside at the core of all social, cultural, and political institutions in the U.S. Martinot shows how race and racism are produced in the United States, analyzing the politics of racialization, and the preponderance of racial segregat…