Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (Materializing Culture
t is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'. Yet despite this high profile, in-depth explorations...
$138.00
The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
$23.00
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity
Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and coloured people, none of them favourable, and most of which have reinforced stereotyped and derogatory images. Beyond the Masks is a readable account of black psychology, exploring key...
$74.99
Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature
Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes. It is the first book to explore the literary representation by authors black and white, male and female, of interracial relations between France and...
$103.50
Between the Lines: Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity...
$57.49
Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution
For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride, while after U.S. intervention the suppression of Afro-Cuban aspirations created a strong interest among...
$64.99
Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians...
$180.00
Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians...
$39.99
Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
$49.99
Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood simply...
$49.99
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once...
$43.99
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
In this richly illustrated account of black–white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color.For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African...
$41.00
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular...
$36.00
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular...
$102.00
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race,...
$102.00
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race,...
$36.00
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged...
$25.95
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$44.00
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$152.00
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great...
$34.99
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great...
$128.99
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia: Language, Culture, Identity
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations...
$68.99
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia: Language, Culture, Identity
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations...
$68.99
Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora
Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced African-derived religions in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo. Examining court cases,...
$40.00
Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora
Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced African-derived religions in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo. Examining court cases,...
$126.50
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural...
$32.00
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural...
$126.50
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
$57.99
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and...
$57.99
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
$183.99
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and...
$183.99
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing (Critical American Studies)
Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced “a sort of pure homesickness” while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Through writing, Himes constructed an imaginary home informed both by nostalgia...
$29.99
Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
In searching for a definitive concept of black theatre, Euba delves deeply into the Yoruba culture and gods, specifically the attributes and ritual of Esu-Elegbara. The resulting vision goes beyond the standard interpretations to place Esu, the fate god, squarely...
$109.00