African American
African American
Introducing African American Religion
This book offers a creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion. Tracing what it has meant to be African American and religious within the context of the United States, it provides a vital snapshot of some...
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The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
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The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more...
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Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast
Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and...
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Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian...
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Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian...
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Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora
Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or definition of masculine identity produced by men of...
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Medical Anthropology and African American Health
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches―from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others, including the general public, to health care. This approach places...
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that...
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Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Black American and Diasporic Studies)
Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the...
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Negro-African literature in French is one of a number of appellations most commonly used to describe a body of literary texts written in French by Africans and those of African descent from roughly 1920 onward. Discussing the numerous other terms...
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The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union―the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the...
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
NPR • Best Books of 2021 Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more. “When you look over your own...
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
NPR • Best Books of 2021 Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more. “When you look over your own...
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On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography’s role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons “signify”? Nicole R....
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On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes
First published in French in 1808 and translated into English two years later under the title An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of the Negroes, this book was a touchstone for nineteenth-century abolitionists in England and the United...
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On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value
In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race...
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Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand...
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Palmares
2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in FictionA NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 SelectionA New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian “50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021” Selection · An Esquire “Best Books of...
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Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity...
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality)
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality)
One of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction not only refutes the tacit assumption that there is a lack of quality African American vampire fiction worthy of study or reading but...
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Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
Choice Outstanding Academic Title African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book Prize A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Finalist, Association for the Study of African American...
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Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication AssociationThe African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the...
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Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication AssociationThe African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the...
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Perspectives of Black Histories in Schools (Research in Social Education)
Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, we have seen k- 12 Black history expand as an academic subject, which has altered research...
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Perspectives of Black Histories in Schools (Research in Social Education)
Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, we have seen k- 12 Black history expand as an academic subject, which has altered research...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winnerMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism,...
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The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle...
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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.
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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.
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Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe,...
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