Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson.

What Comes Naturally is both accessible to the general reader and informative to the specialist, a rare feat for an original work of history based on archival research.

The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments.

"In this book it is my intent to write about the Mexican American people's Indian, White, and Black racial history.

She provides fresh insight into how these laws served complex purposes, why they remained on the books for so long, and what led to their eventual demise.

Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile.

Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

Slaves take the initiative here--one of the many new insights that "Creating the Creole Island" brings to history, literature, and anthropology. And the book is a wonderful read besides.

Using excerpts from rarely seen publications such as White Patriot and White Power, this text explores the world of white supremacists and the way they imagine racial and gender identity.