Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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...
$172.99
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.
$29.99
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
Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fi
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and...
$39.99
Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
“An important contribution to U.S.-Caribbean dialogues in the field of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures.”―Jossianna Arroyo, author of Travestismos culturales: literature y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil “Maguire’s close readings of women ethnographers like Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston result in...
$97.50
The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics
Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected to it, such as racial identity politics, racism, multiracialism, interracial relationships, and the hegemony of whiteness. This book goes further...
$119.99
The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics
Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected to it, such as racial identity politics, racism, multiracialism, interracial relationships, and the hegemony of whiteness. This book goes further...
$66.99
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
$150.00
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an...
$150.00
Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil: Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Brazil has undertaken affirmative action in its universities on an unprecedented scale. An expert group of international scholars puts the new policies in historical, political, and legal context; evaluates their outcomes for students and universities; and demonstrates that the policies...
$175.00
Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church
Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications. This book explores the ways in which leaders and laity constructed historical narratives around varied locations...
$56.00
Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian...
$110.50
Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality
Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and...
$50.99
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse...
$74.00
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse...
$247.00
Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil
In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color....
$162.00
Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s residents...
$123.50
Race and the Black Male Subculture: The Lives of Toby Waller
This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary chapters, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is...
$149.99