Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2001Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People for 20012001 ALA Notable Book for Children2002-2003 Show Me Readers Award Master List2003 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Master ListNot Just for Children Anymore! 20012001 Notable Books...
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Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian...
$134.99
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
$41.00
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
$180.00
$140.00
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
$180.00
$140.00
Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry Gonzalez
"Biography of Marta Terry Gonzâalez, director of Cuba's Josâe Martâi National Library. Discusses the role of Afro-Cuban in Cuban history and culture and the role of libraries in the context of the Cuban revolution"--
$47.25
Rock 'n' Roll Jews
A disciplined study that reveals the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock 'n' roll.
$19.95
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. -He rescued 118 enslaved people-He won a medal at the first World's...
$37.00
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. -He rescued 118 enslaved people -He won a medal at the first...
$55.99
Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific
Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional...
$49.00
Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902–1997), a black woman known as “Reyita,” recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita’s voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story—as told...
$29.99
Revival: An Anthology of the Best Black Canadian Writing
The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date...
$21.95
Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy
An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy’s contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.In the more than twenty years since the publication of his book The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy has become a leading Afro-European intellectual whose work in the cultural...
$118.75
Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative approaches—and how...
$53.00
Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative approaches—and how...
$123.00
Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television (Culture, Representation and Identity series)
`This is one of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade…. Sarita Malik′s book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on race, cultural studies and public pedagogy′ - Henry Giroux, Penn State...
$98.75
Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television (Culture, Representation and Identity series)
`This is one of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade…. Sarita Malik′s book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on race, cultural studies and public pedagogy′ - Henry Giroux, Penn State...
$251.25
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in...
$58.50
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological AssociationFinalist, 2017 Albert...
$115.99
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological AssociationFinalist, 2017 Albert...
$36.00
Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas
Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the...
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Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas
Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the...
$64.99
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism
$68.99
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil examines Black Brazilian political struggle and the predicaments it faces in a time characterized by the increasing institutionalization of ethno-racial policies and black participation in policy orchestration. Greater public debate and policy attention...
$68.99
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
$215.99
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
$59.50
Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana
Rebel Destiny: Among The Bush Negroes Of Dutch Guiana is a non-fiction book written by Melville Jean Herskovits. The book describes the author's experiences and observations during his travels to Dutch Guiana (now known as Suriname) in the 1920s. Specifically,...
$53.99
Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in...
$53.00
Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
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Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
he first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
$118.99
Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980's
A systematic comparison of key differences and similarities in the experience of black people in the US and England amidst racial hostility. Small argues for an approach to combatting this built on shared racial identities.
$74.00