Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Aponte (Spanish Edition)
Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks...
$46.60
Antiblackness
Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century...
$137.99
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other”
This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in...
$225.00
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh...
$124.00
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh...
$31.00
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New
A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave...
$102.00
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New
A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave...
$42.00
Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples (Cross Cultural Theologies)
'Another World is Possible' examines the many peoples who have mobilized religion and spirituality to forge identity. Some claim direct links to indigenous spiritual practices; others have appropriated externally introduced religions, modifying these with indigenous perspectives and practices. The voices...
$240.00
Another Black Like Me: the Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora
This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specializing in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people...
$94.99
Among the Blacks
Fiction. African American Studies. Translated from the French. AMONG THE BLACKS consists of two works: Ron Padgett's translation of Raymond Roussel's early story "Parmi les noirs," first published in 1935 in his book Comment j'ai ecrit certain de mes livres,...
$20.00
Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western....
$102.00
Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Brazil’s Black population, one of the oldest and largest in the Americas, mobilized a vibrant antiracism movement from grassroots origins when the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s. Campaigning for political equality after centuries of deeply engrained...
$87.00
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous...
$95.49
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues...
$30.00
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues...
$126.50
Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation
Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity. The interdisciplinary research draws on several theoretical constructs: cultural studies,...
$37.50
Afro-Latin American Studies
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of...
$48.00
The Afro-Hispanic Reader and Anthology
The growing prominence of afrocentricity has contributed to the increase in black Hispanic literature and the emergence of Afro-Hispanism as a legitimate genre of historical and sociocultural study. From Nicolás Guillén to Manuel Zapata Olivella and Nancy Morejón, Spanish-speaking black...
$53.99
Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas
Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an...
$45.60
Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Junctures
Afro-Cubanism is a movement in Caribbean arts and letters that stemmed from a rediscovery of the region's African heritage during the 1920s and to some extent paralleled the Harlem Renaissance in the United States. Thus the movement was not an...
$109.00
Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums
“Ocasio has found a mid-point between the vision of Costumbrista writing as a source of the Afro-Cuban historical and literary experience and criticizing it for its biases and shortfalls regarding early depictions of blacks. An interesting interdisciplinary blend of literature...
$86.00
Afrocuba: Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society that claims to have abolished it? How does the legacy of slavery and segregation live on in today’s Cuba? Essays, poetry, extracts from novels,...
$72.49
AfroCuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island’s writers, scholars and artists. "A rich portrait of AfroCuba—one of the most vibrant and least well-documented of the black Caribbean diasporas."—Stuart Hall An insightful look at Cuba’s...
$19.95
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with...
$132.99
Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change
The central topic of this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of “Afrocentricity,” which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects; and looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and world view gives Africans a better understanding of how...
$21.95
Afro Immigrants Politics Incorp: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit
This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in the United States?...
$159.99
Afro Immigrants Politics Incorp: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit
This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in the United States?...
$46.99
Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (Latin American Realities (Hardcover))
$57.49
Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (Latin American Realities (Hardcover))
The essays in this book constitute an analytic survey of the last two centuries of Afro-Bahian history, with a focus squarely on the difficult relationship between Afro- and Euro-Bahia and on the continual Afro-Bahian struggle to create a meaningful culture...
$57.49
Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (Latin American Realities (Hardcover))
$195.50
Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (Latin American Realities (Hardcover))
The essays in this book constitute an analytic survey of the last two centuries of Afro-Bahian history, with a focus squarely on the difficult relationship between Afro- and Euro-Bahia and on the continual Afro-Bahian struggle to create a meaningful culture...
$195.50
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary,...
$33.99