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Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance Reading and the history of race in the Renaissance Elizabeth Spiller "Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was … OL16116710W
The persistence of the color line The persistence of the color line Randall Kennedy "Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on … OL16140147W
Queering the Color Line Queering the Color Line Siobhan B. Somerville Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a ran… OL17371695W
Ontological terror Ontological terror Calvin L. Warren,Calvin L. Warren The author intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. The author use… OL17893080W
White lies White lies Maurice Berger Contains primary source material. OL19671450W
How to be less stupid about race How to be less stupid about race Melanie Taylor,Crystal Marie Fleming "A primer that explores how our racist American society socializes us all to be racially stupid--and what we can do about it"-- OL19754184W
Your face in mine Your face in mine Jess Row "A novel about a grieving man who reconnects with a high-school friend who has undergone racial reassignment surgery and finds their chance encounter has potentially devastating consequences for him"… OL19982046W
Dear white people Dear white people Justin Simien "Right out of college, Justin Simien wrote a screenplay about the nuanced experiences of four black students on a predominantly white college campus ... Channeling the sensibility of the film into th… OL19992701W
Can we talk about race? Can we talk about race? Beverly Daniel Tatum Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School ResegregationMajor new reflections on race and schools — by the best-selling author of Why Are All the … OL2683673W
Dusk of dawn Dusk of dawn Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,W. E. B. Du Bois,Irene Diggs,Anthony Appiah "In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significan… OL28605W
Yearning Yearning Bell Hooks,Christopher Raschka "For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism … OL31122W
Race Race Thomas F. Gossett When Tom Gosset's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current schola… OL3336351W
Brutal Imagination Brutal Imagination Cornelius Eady This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. These two main themes sho… OL3524912W
Brown Brown Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-s… OL4321650W
Shades of black Shades of black Sandra L. Pinkney Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. OL547891W
It's test day, Tiger Turcotte It's test day, Tiger Turcotte Pansie Hart Flood Already so worried about the big second grade test that his stomach is upset, seven-year-old Tiger Turcotte, whose parents are Black, Meherrin Indian, and Hispanic, gets stuck on the question about r… OL5705892W
Light, bright, and damned near white Light, bright, and damned near white Stephanie Rose Bird The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bi… OL5853401W
The end of Blackness The end of Blackness Debra J. Dickerson "This book will prove and promote the idea that the concept of 'blackness,' as it has come to be understood, is rapidly losing its ability to describe, let alone predict or manipulate, the political … OL6035638W
What color are you? What color are you? Darwin Walton Describes the purpose of skin and the cause of various skin colors. Discusses the fact that skin color has no effect on basic human needs and feelings. OL6700167W
Malcolm X Malcolm X Jeff Burlingame "A biography of human rights activist Malcolm X, discussing his early struggles with racism, rise to fame as the public face of the Nation of Islam, personal hardships, and legacy"--Provided by publi… OL8515868W
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