LibGuides: Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive: Complexities of Race

Resources

Making Ethnic Choices by Karen Leonard
ISBN: 1439903646
Publication Date: 2010-08-17
"[A] thoroughly original study that greatly expands our knowledge of how ethnic identities are formed. Leonard writes clearly and her inclusion of the voices of the Punjabi-Mexicans lends humor and depth to the history. This insightful study will be of interest to all scholars concerned with immigration and ethnicity and the history of California." --The Journal of Asian Studies.
Dragon Wore Kicks by Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 0807050105
Publication Date: 2001-11-18
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting examines five centuries of remarkable cultural & political interaction between black & Asians around the world. Prashad offers the theory of polyculturalism, which allows for solidarity, not just lip service to diversity.

Black in Latin America
Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels to Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to discover the African influence on Latin America. He examines the shared legacy of colonialism and slavery in a region that imported ten times as many slaves as the United States, and kept them in bondage far longer.

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald
ISBN: 0674070402
Publication Date: 2013-01-07
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture by Jill Toliver Richardson
ISBN: 3319319205
Publication Date: 2016-09-28
This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s.

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We are often presented with the idea that racial identities are monolithic blocks - Asian, Black, LatinX, etc. Through explorations of the social, cultural and historical, these UT Libraries resources highlight the complexities of race.
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