Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
The Magic Island
"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read … [an] immensely important book." — New York Evening Post"A series of excellent stories about one of the most interesting corners of the American world, told by a...
$24.95
Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity
Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew JolivZtte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial...
$130.00
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
$120.00
Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road
What does it mean to cross half a continent without documents or rights? The self-told story of African migration.
$120.00
The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and...
$29.99
The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and...
$113.99
London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims...
$110.00
Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic: From Pre- to Postcolonial
This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This study focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions...
$68.99
A Literary Revolution
Original works, diverse perspectives, and multiple disciplines intersect in A Literary Revolution. This book features much-needed perspectives of people of African descent and delves into those perspectives through the use of literature, film, short stories, poetry, and philosophy. Through various academic...
$67.99
Listening to Images
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually...
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Listening to Images
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually...
$113.95
Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from...
$34.99
Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from...
$129.99
Light from Ancient Africa
Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution to what might be called the Re-Africanization of Psychology Project. It was within this project that we came to realize that the notion of human psychology was and remains an African invention...In...
$12.00
Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America
The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling...
$97.50
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence...
$29.99
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence...
$27.99
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts,...
$43.50
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts,...
$144.00
Language, Rhythm, and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls’ Double Dutch...
$71.50
Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico
Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico...
$44.99
Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic
Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English). Indeed, this book...
$129.99
Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic
Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English). Indeed, this book...
$45.99
The Isis Yssis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
$19.95
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations....
$230.00
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations....
$90.99
Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New...
$69.95
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...
$77.99
Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Disapora in Britain
The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to Inside Babylon show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare services, help to channel black people...
$45.00
Index to Afro-American Reference Resources.: (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
This volume makes a much-needed contribution to the field of Afro-American studies by providing subject access to a wealth of materials on the black experience in the Americas. Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries,...
$109.00