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  • Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America

    “Keepin’ It Real” presents a wide-ranging group of essays that take on key aspects of the current landscape surrounding racial issues in America, including the place of the Obamas, the rise of the alt-right and White nationalism, Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick and the backlash against his protests, Black Lives Matter, sexual politics in the black…

  • water/tongue

    “water/tongue” is a critical read for anyone interested in the long effects of gendered and cultural violence, and the power of speech to forge new and empowering directions.

  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

    Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era University of Chicago Press April 2016 272 pages 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226353012 Cloth ISBN: 9780226352961 E-book ISBN: 9780226353159 Michael Tesler, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine When Barack Obama won the presidency, many…

  • The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

    The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…

  • Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

    “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.

  • Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

    How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in “Making Hispanics.”

  • Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.

  • Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era

    Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white and black, “Fire and Desire” ultimately questions the category of “race movies” itself.

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

    Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…

  • Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family

    Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…