Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by...
$49.99
In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition (Dance and Performance Studies, 7)
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men...
$162.00
Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden
Echos of the Old Darkland is the first original book by Dr. Charles S. Finch III in which the author attempts to trace origin and the evolution of humanity, is culture, myths, and religion in Africa in light of modern findings.
$25.00
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
The compelling teen nonfiction account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America.The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance...
$14.99
In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
"A substantial step forward for black diaspora and black transnational literary studies."--Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha"Fills a significant void in our understanding of the life and literary career of Eric Walrond. By collecting, for the first...
$97.99
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and addresses the persistent questions of...
$42.99
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and addresses the persistent questions of...
$118.99
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy
First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean,...
$35.99
A Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall’s Fiction
From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall's novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancestors. In this, the first...
$118.99
A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain
Now updated and available in paperback, this is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or slaves in the mid-eighteenth century, Innes includes a...
$50.99
Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age,...
$124.99
The Groundings With My Brothers
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter RodneyIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the...
$16.95
Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its...
$48.00
Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference
On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or...
$45.50
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives
This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. The book adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geographies, intersectional feminism, and textual...
$53.99
From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourismBased on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation...
$68.99
From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of...
$38.00
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and...
$212.50
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and...
$84.00
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This...
$180.00
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This...
$47.99
Ecrivains noirs d'Afrique et des Antilles (American University Studies) (French Edition)
This book is written in French.This anthology contains biographies and critical analyses of the works of African and Caribbean Black writers from the twentieth century. It offers several excerpts in prose and poetry to be used as basic reading material...
$56.00
Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice
Winner of the 2005 Otto Grundler Award, the International Congress on Medieval Studies Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for...
$41.00
Dunkle Reflexe: Schwarzafrikaner und Afro-Amerikaner in der deutschen Erzählkunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Fünf exemplarische Texte
Angesichts der zunehmenden Bedeutung einer nicht nur internationalen, sondern auch interkulturellen Germanistik gehört es zu den dringendsten Aufgaben, entsprechende Texte für Lehre und Unterricht bereitzustellen. Die vorliegende Anthologie (mit Einleitung und Kommentar) versammelt erstmals in einem Band die fünf gewichtigsten...
$86.00
Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas Volume 14
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central―and contested―role of music in shaping identities, politics, social...
$41.99
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (First Edition, First)
Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects...
$36.00
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 71)
Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the experimental aspects...
$141.50
Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and...
$66.25
Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and...
$155.00