Tag: University of Missouri Press

  • The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial schema of the island nation.

  • From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008 University of Missouri Press 2012 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8262-1977-0 Dennis Nordin In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American…

  • University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press.  The…

  • “To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.

  • Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of…

  • Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success University of Missouri Press October 2010 192 pages 15 illustrations, bibliography index ISBN-10: 0826218997 ISBN-13: 978-0826218995 Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Professor Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair,…

  • In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…

  • Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer University of Missouri Press 1998 136 pages 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 25 illus. ISBN: 0-8262-1198-4 Jack A. Batterson Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William “Blind” Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for almost fifty years. Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer provides the first…

  • What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending?  Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…