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  • January 23, 2024

    8 Tips for a Stronger Grant Proposal at RESI

    Tips for Preparing Grant Proposals at RESI At the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute we have multiple funding opportunities to help enhance your research. Whether you’re a faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, we have research funding to take your project to the next level. We understand that grant writing is its own genre and […]

  • July 30, 2021

    The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet

    The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers […]

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

    All Boys Aren’t Blue: In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual […]

  • Black Girl, Call Home

    From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer […]

  • Fiebre Tropical

    Fiebre Tropical: Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also […]

  • Queer Love in Color

    Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum […]

  • My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

      My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia’s life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance […]

  • Occupied America: A History of Chicanos

    Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history.  This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched.  With a concise and engaged narrative, and timelines that give students a context for pivotal events in Chicano history, Occupied […]

  • George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexas Novel

    Fiction. “An absorbing, heart-rending story told with sensitivity and wisdom. George Washington Gomez deserves a wide readership not only for its artistry but also for its subject matter” -Beaumont Enterprise.

  • Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

    Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. Borderlands / La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a “border” is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us […]