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  • Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

    In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race.

  • Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures

    In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.

  • Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race

    In “Troublesome Science,” Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique of how scientific tools have been misused to uphold misguided racial categorizations.

  • The Trouble with Post-Blackness

    The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…

  • Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

    “Race Unmasked” revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age.

  • Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders

    Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders Columbia University Press October 2013 280 pages 6 B&W Photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-13294-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-13295-4 Kyle D. Killian, Couple and Family Therapist; Associate Professor and Research Associate Centre for Refugee Studies York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with…

  • Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self

    “Lines of the Nation” radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the…

  • I consider racialized medicine to be the inappropriate use of racial categories in medical practice and drug development.

    I consider racialized medicine to be the inappropriate use of racial categories in medical practice and drug development. It often involves constructing practices around mistaken assumptions of some innate genetic difference among racial groups. For me, the important issue is not whether to use race in biomedicine, but how to use it–and when. There are…

  • In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

    Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda’s In “Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees” Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel,…

  • In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories Columbia University Press April 2000 480 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-11829-3 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Rhonda M. Roorda   Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted…