Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels
Through its critical examination of novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Sherley Anne Williams, Octavia Butler, John Edgar Wideman, Phyllis Perry, Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips, and others, The Diasporan Self presents a fresh and insightful approach to canonical and noncanonical...
$27.95
Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival
Marronage—the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories-—had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue...
$37.49
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$45.00
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$70.00
Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels
Through its critical examination of novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Sherley Anne Williams, Octavia Butler, John Edgar Wideman, Phyllis Perry, Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips, and others, The Diasporan Self presents a fresh and insightful approach to canonical and noncanonical...
$77.00
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
A transformative literary history of black environmental writing. Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response to natural and agricultural...
$38.00
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
A transformative literary history of black environmental writing. Winner, William Sanders Scarborough Prize by the Modern Language Association At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of Black literary response to natural and agricultural...
$62.00
Cuentos de Apolo (Spanish Edition)
Exquisite new black-and-white drawings give a fresh look to Hilda Perera's first book, considered a classic of children's literature in Spanish. Cuentos de Apolo portrays the hopes, pleasures, and frustrations of a sensitive black country boy, anxious to learn about...
$9.99
Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
$104.00
Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained...
$104.00
Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz (Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies)
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array...
$71.49
Critical Essays on Ngugi Wa Thiong O: Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( b. 1938) (Critical Essays on World Literature Series)
The highly acclaimed African writer (Petals of Blood and A Grain of Wheat) who illuminates the struggles of Africa and the Third World by writing about his own people, the Gikuyu. 01
$116.00
The Crisis of Negritude: A Study of the Black Movement Against Intellectual Oppression in the Early 20th Century
The Negritude movement was initiated in the 1930s by the sisters Jane and Paulette Nardal, who created a journal called The Review of the African World-- a journal that recognized the value of black experiences globally. The name of the...
$21.99
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (New Americanists)
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker...
$134.00
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (New Americanists)
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker...
$36.00
Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas
In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on...
$40.00
Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas
In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on...
$126.50
Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre-...
$128.99
Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre-...
$32.00
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance
"An original book on a neglected figure of the Harlem Renaissance . . . Holcomb is the first scholar to offer a coherent account of the different aspects of McKay's career and life without treating them as contradictions."--John Carlos Rowe,...
$34.99
Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
2016 Reprint of 1887 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. As a writer, Blyden is regarded widely as the "Father of Pan-Africanism". His major work, "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race" (1887), promoted...
$15.99
Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afro-mexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority...
$35.94
Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of "Black" Mexico
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authorities, journalists, activists, and foreign anthropologists. The majority...
$143.99
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership—this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the...
$32.00
Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women―Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe...
$51.99
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how bodies are read is extremely important. The contributors to this volume elicit or produce both tangible and intangible social, political, material, spiritual and...
$61.00
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities
Cartographies of Blackness and Black Indigeneities acknowledges the saliency of Blackness in contemporary social formations, insisting that how bodies are read is extremely important. The contributors to this volume elicit or produce both tangible and intangible social, political, material, spiritual and...
$61.00
Capitalist Accumulation and Socio-Ecological Resilience: Black People in Border Areas of Colombia and Ecuador and the Palm Oil Industry
By combining Marxism with feminist political economy and political ecology, this book develops a theoretical frame about the continuity of plundering and looting in the region of Tumaco-San Lorenzo at the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador, as well as...
$62.00
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively addresses fiction, poetry,...
$136.50
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture. While there are a number of anthologies covering Black and Asian literature, there is no volume that comparatively addresses fiction, poetry,...
$41.99
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and...
$123.99