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African American Voices: African American Health
This book inaugurates a series dedicated to the health issues that aff ect distinct communities. Here, prominent health educators explore the pressing cultural and health needs of African Americans. Discussions on child abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness, access to health...
$68.99
African American Women in the News
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on...
$57.99
African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on...
$195.99
African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children’s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate...
$48.99
African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children’s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate...
$200.00
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences...
$46.99
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation (Volume 1) (Race and Culture in the American West Series)
Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference...
$40.99
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and...
$36.99
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and...
$120.99
The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin (San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy)
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora. Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and...
$64.99
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the...
$121.99
The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Cen (Global Academic Publishing)
Offers important new perspectives on the African diaspora in North America.
$66.99
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans...
$106.99
The African Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 23)
$44.99
The African Experience in Spanish America (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 23)
This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of the...
$44.99
The African in Latin America (Borzoi books on Latin America)
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975, this volume is directed toward students of history, sociology and minority studies who wish to gain a fuller understanding of the experience of Africans in the New World and of the contributions...
$64.99
African Peoples of the Americas: From Slavery to Civil Rights
An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3. Each book provides teachers with all the material they require to develop fully their pupils' historical knowledge, skills and understanding.
$38.99
Africana Faith: A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam
Essentially, the study of black religion in America has been mysterious, quarrelsome, and paradoxical. Repeatedly the reason in this primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim...
$167.99
African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present...
$54.99
African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present
Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities - which led to black children being separate from the white majority. In African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present...
$54.99
African-Caribbean Hairdressing
African-Caribbean Hairdressing, Second Edition is an updated essential guide covering all aspects of hairdressing techniques in this area. It is the only book written in the UK for students and professionals studying and working with this client group. African-Caribbean hair...
$97.50
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
$40.99
Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas
Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an...
$45.60
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
"Considers MoMA's complex history with black artists, black audiences, and art about blackness" –Victoria L Valentine, Culture Type A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum...
$65.00
Among the Blacks
Fiction. African American Studies. Translated from the French. AMONG THE BLACKS consists of two works: Ron Padgett's translation of Raymond Roussel's early story "Parmi les noirs," first published in 1935 in his book Comment j'ai ecrit certain de mes livres,...
$20.00
Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$124.00
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (Critical American Studies)
Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced “a sort of pure homesickness” while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Through writing, Himes constructed an imaginary home informed both by nostalgia...
$29.99
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans and other Allied Families including: Allain, Bonneval, Bringier, Chiapella, Coudrain, Dalcour, Delachaise, Domingon, Dupuy, Edmunds, Flot, Foy, Grandmaison, Lassize, Latrobe, Lemelle, Lorreins, Ozenne, Pinta, Raby, Rigaud, St. Hubert, Watkinson,...
$86.00
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
$183.99
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and...
$183.99
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
Beyond Black and Red is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American...
$34.49
Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans,...
$144.00