Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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The Isis Yssis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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