"In this dramatic and beautifully written memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies that she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala who called her their "little Moor." Her journey into i…
The author concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society
The author concludes his "trilogy of American public life" by contemplating the many cultural associations of the color brown--toil, decay, impurity, and time--as he considers the meaning of Hispanics in American society.
This study considers cultural representations of 'brown' people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and 'histories, ' Salih probes the ext.
This book examines the representation of 'mixed race' female identities in colonial and postcolonial societies, from the 18th century onwards. It demonstrates the striking connections between historical and contemporary discourses of race and argues for a shift in the ways we th…
The rise of the multiple-race population -- The political construction of racial boundaries -- Creating racial identification -- Processes of identity formation -- The development of racial ideologies and attitudes -- The development of social attitudes -- Multiple-minority bira…
"The U.S. is transforming into a multiracial society: today one-in-six new marriages are interracial and the multiple-race population is the fastest-growing youth group in the country. In Politics Beyond Black and White, Lauren Davenport examines the ascendance of multiracial id…
"The U.S. is transforming into a multiracial society: today one-in-six new marriages are interracial and the multiple-race population is the fastest-growing youth group in the country. In Politics Beyond Black and White, Lauren Davenport examines the ascendance of multiracial id…
