A historical examination of how scientific research about racial difference has been used to justify political inequality. From slavery to eugenics and the Jensen controversy, it criticizes the biases that were advanced in the name of research.

A reconsideration of the history of race research as a junction of science and politics.

A memoir that reflects on the cost of growing up and the making of the self through Black family history and movement into white society. It quietly explores the tension between responsibility to family and personal ambition.

Moving away from family can also mean moving toward the self.

Set in early twentieth-century Texas, this novel follows a young man of mixed Cherokee heritage as he searches for a place in the world amid forbidden love and racial tension. Using the form of historical romance, it addresses land, belonging, and identity.

In a Texas marked by love and violence, a young man searches for a place to belong.