Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
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Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.
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Race and Racism in Britain, Third Edition
The new edition of Race and Racism in Britain builds on the strengths of previous editions of this widely-used text in providing a detailed and critical analysis of race relations and forms of racism in British society today. The book begins by...
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Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain
Covering a key topic in sociology, this work is a thorough and lively introduction to the role and importance of race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. Discussions include the study of race and ethnicity in Britain, the role of...
$60.00
Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective: The National Political Science Review
Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of...
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Race and Ethnicity: Across Time, Space and Discipline
Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain impervious to many of us. Hence in this volume authors were challenged to think outside the box. As such, scholars were encouraged to...
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Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil
This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in...
$220.00
The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
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The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
$184.99
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago...
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Postnegritude Visual and Literary Culture
In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of...
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Postnegritude Visual and Literary Culture
In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of...
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Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands
We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an individual who migrates 750 miles from...
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The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
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The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years...
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The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire
Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire are considered by many critics and literary historians to be the foremost Caribbean poets of the 20th century, yet they are rarely treated together. This work deals with the two writers within a comparative framework,...
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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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Place of Thorns: Black political protest in Kroonstad since 1976
Based on scores of life-history interviews, the book illustrates a shift in the political mood from 1976 onwards.Place of Thorns: Black Political protest in Kroonstad since 1976, is a landmark study that examines the tumultuous and often fractious politics in...
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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright...
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends...
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends...
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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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Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898–1940 (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US...
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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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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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Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
In this fascinating treatment of "party" life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties. Party/Politics reveals new dimensions to the way we think about the cultural and political sphere, both nationally and transnationally. The author...
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Pan–Africanism: Exploring the Contradictions: Politics, Identity and Development in Africa and the African Diaspora
What does it mean to be an African today? Starting from that question the author takes the reader on a fascinating intellectual journey into the realm of Pan-African thought and practice. Moving from Africa to North America to Europe, the...
$220.00