Race

Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities

Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities

This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.
"Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender, religion, and sociality play in everyday interactions between refugees from South Sudan and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the dominant white Euro-American population of the city."
Author
Jennifer Erickson
Publication
2020
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

"What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest."
Author
Peggy Pascoe
Publication
2009
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Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

Racial Formation in the 21st Century…brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The contributors explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body."
Author
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Oneka LaBennett
Laura Pulido
Publication
2012
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Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America

This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.
"Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men. American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place, Miriam J. Abelson makes an original contribution to this conversation through in-depth interviews with trans men in the U.S. West, Southeast, and Midwest, showing how the places and spaces men inhabit are fundamental to their experiences of race, sexuality, and gender."
Author
Miriam J. Abelson
Publication
2019
Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

"This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains?"
Author
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Publication
2010
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom Book Cover

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

"Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous."

Rutgers University Press, 208 pages

 

Author
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Publication
2010
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Race and Ethnicity

“This textbook combines Naomi Zack’s earlier philosophical work, examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with oppression. The book is intended for students to access online, in a multi-media format, where they will have direct access to sound and video material.”
Author
Naomi Zack
Publication
2012
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Book Cover

On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility

“This book juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. In their efforts to “make sense,” these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice—an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as community members worthy of being known.”
Author
Ernesto Javier Martinez
Publication
2012
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles Book Cover

Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles

“Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alaí Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin."
Author
Alaí Reyes-Santos
Publication
2014
White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide Book Cover

White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide

“Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis. This urgent and immediate analysis of the killings of unarmed black men by police officers shows how racial profiling matches statistics of the prison population with disregard for the constitutional rights of the many innocent people of all races."
Author
Naomi Zack Rowman
Publication
2015