Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
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,...
$123.99
Afro-Asian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$36.00
African Folktales in the New World
"These essays . . . are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." ―Choice" . . . this is Bascom at his best. . . . an attractive and full-bodied book." ―FabulaThese essays, devoted...
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AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$102.99
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean (Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving)
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of...
$134.99
Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
This extensively researched history traces the lives of black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia who, still enslaved at the time, arrived with the influx of black loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783.
$28.99
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
$126.50
Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business
"...engaging, richly illustrated, and well-reserached .... Part anthology, cultural studies, history, journalism and political science, it... manages to consistently engage the reader..." - African Studies Review"Lindfors's book shows how the 'edutainment' of the 19th century perpetuated an ignorance of Africa...
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Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the...
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
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Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands
Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and...
$163.49
Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
"This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." ―Judith A. Byfield, DartmouthIn this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New...
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Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations
While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a...
$137.98
Africans Before Caricom
Africans Before Caricom documents the long history of members of the World African Community from their beginnings in Africa to their arrivals in the Caribbean and other parts of the western hemisphere. Its first chapter reports ideas from African peoples,...
$23.49
Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding African-American historian, has brought the range of his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experience in the...
$27.00
Africans Are Not Black: The case for conceptual liberation (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)
Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as black, the consequences of this practice, and how it contributes to the denigration (blackening) and dehumanisation...
$195.50
The African-German Experience: Critical Essays
A collection of critical and theoretical essays that seek to take an in-depth look at the socio-political and historical roots of the African-German presence in today's Germany. The essays examine the African Germans and otherness, with vivid descriptions of personal...
$109.49
African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain. It was a period marked by expeditions to the New World, Africa, and the Orient, and these voyages were reflected in the travel literature of the era. It...
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African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil (New World Diasporas)
“A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-Bahian cultural politics became incorporated into representations of Bahia and the limited material gains for Afro-Bahians during this period.”—Hendrik Kraay, editor of Negotiating...
$86.99
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.Warrior. Samurai. Legend.When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late...
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The African Presence in Santo Domingo
Throughout its long and often tumultuous history, “La Hispanola” has taken on various cultural identities to meet the expectations―and especially the demands―of those who governed it. The island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti saw its first great shift...
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African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors...
$137.99
African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents
From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C. Schwaller, documents...
$40.99
The African in Latin America (Borzoi books on Latin America)
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975, this volume is directed toward students of history, sociology and minority studies who wish to gain a fuller understanding of the experience of Africans in the New World and of the contributions...
$64.99
African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
$57.00
African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated...
$57.00
African Folktales in the New World (Folklore Studies in Translation,)
Book by Bascom, William Russell
$22.00
African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe
In 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants had arrived in the EU, the vast majority having come...
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African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned...
$30.00
The African Difference: Discourses on Africanity and the Relativity of Cultures (Studies in African and Afro-American Culture)
By rejecting Western perceptions of Africa as a starting point for African philosophy, Oyekan Owomoyela challenges ideas about African culture held by many Western and African thinkers and confronts the West's assumptions of its philosophical superiority. His concept of African...
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