Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Talking About Race
What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children...
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Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation
Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation is one of the most powerful and effective books ever written on one of the oldest economic systems practiced. The Book is the second part of...
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Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as...
$130.00
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy
Survival of the Black Family critically examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement. Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies...
$58.50
The Surreptitious Speech: Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987
Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to Presence Africaine, the landmark African studies journal begun in 1947 Paris. While it celebrates the project's forty-year history, The Surreptitious Speech does not naively canonize the journal but rather offers a vibrant discussion...
$162.50
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes...
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes...
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Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Overachieve, Be Cheerful, or Confront
How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own...
$144.00
The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature
The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger. Rejecting the idea that humans have easy access to a common reserve of experiences and emotions,...
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Stolen Life
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
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Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being)
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
$129.99
Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more...
$220.00
Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad,...
$123.50
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people...
$146.99
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people...
$49.00
Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots
“Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga’s family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her...
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The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, a"The Sorcery of Color"aargues that there are longstanding and deeply-rooted relationships between racial and gender inequalities in Brazil. In this pioneering book, Elisa Larkin Nascimento examines the social and cultural movements that have attempted,...
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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
$59.00
Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective
Tracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective...
$48.00
Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
One reason that Schwartz is the leading authority on colonial Brazilian social and economic history (especially slavery) is that he ranges widely, addressing comparative themes and reexamining traditional interpretations about society. This collection of essays reconsiders the critical issues of...
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Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations: Connecting Old and New Diasporas to the Homeland
From the historical movements of enslaved Africans to the Americas to newer migrations of Africans to spaces like Belgium and France, experiences of blackness on a global stage reflect themes of negotiation, persecution, isolation, unification, remembrance, and much more. Yet,...
$137.99
Slavery in Brazil
Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil...
$36.99
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
$68.99
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
$68.99
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$175.00
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$162.50
Shades of Black
One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a...
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$51.99
Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$129.99