Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
What Color Was Jesus?
Shatters the myth of a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus and examines the psychological effect of the white image of Christ
$17.95
What Are You Gonna Do with that Hair?
Everyone knows Zuri as “the girl with the puffy hair.” Her afro is big and fluffy, and not even gravity can keep it down. People often ask her, “What are you gonna do with that hair?” Zuri finds the answer...
$19.99
Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays...
$60.00
Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays...
$221.00
Weis(s)heiten im postkolonialen Deutschland: Das Konzept des "critical whiteness" am Beispiel der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung von Menschen ... and Postcolonial Encounters) (German Edition)
Diese Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem Konzept des Kritischen Weißseins als Teil der postkolonialen Theorie und Diskursanalyse. Sie enthält, neben einem einleitenden historischen und theoretischen Teil, eine umfassende empirische Befragung von über 200 Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft und Weißen Deutschen, die in Köln und...
$105.00
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting...
$45.50
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the...
$62.50
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the...
$212.50
Von der Stereotypisierung zur Wahrnehmung des ‘Anderen’: Zum Bild der Schwarzafrikaner in neueren deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendbüchern
Die Studie arbeitet die verschiedenen Aspekte des Afrikabildes in aktuellen deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendbüchern heraus. Ausgehend von Fragestellungen der komparatistischen Imagologie deckt sie die Verflechtungen zwischen gesellschaftlicher und literarischer Stereotypisierung auf. Aus interkultureller Perspektive setzt sich der Autor mit der...
$115.00
Voices That Reason: Theoretical Parables
Voices that Reason is a path-breaking work. The author has charted the thoroughfares that speed the thought of many black South Africans towards specific expectations, grievances and actions. The present work constitutes an important and thought-provoking culmination of a generation's...
$43.75
Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime
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Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime
Carrie Noland approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture. Engaging primarily the works of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of...
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Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria...
$84.50
Victory of the Spirit: Reflections on My Journey
NEW from Janet Cheatham Bell! An inspiring and provocative collection of personal essays about the author's life experiences. This very popular title sold more than 50,000 copies when it was initially published in 1996. Now revised and updated, the essays...
$21.00
Various Artists' DJs do Guetto (33 1/3 Europe)
Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ...
$27.99
Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English
Black South African English, the variety of English used by mother-tongue speakers of South Africa’s indigenous languages, has received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, so far most of the accounts of this variety have been only qualitative...
$124.99
Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resources in the Early West Indian Colonies
This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too...
$47.99
Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil (2012)
Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in...
$68.99
Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil
Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in...
$68.99
The Untold Story: Revised Edition
THE UNTOLD STORY is a depiction of a chosen people who civilized the continents of Africa and Asia. These chosen people were Ethiopians. There are five central characters in this book: Enoch, Noah, Moses, Abraham and Jesus Christ. The Untold...
$25.98
Unraveling the Story of Black/African Hair
Saye Carrie is back with her second book. This time she brings black/African hair to the forefront. Hair has played a major role in the lives of black women and girls. Our "Crown and Glory" has direct links back to...
$14.99
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
$81.00
The Universal Machine
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
$33.50
The Universal Machine
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
$129.99
Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love...
$46.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
$64.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they...
$64.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
$99.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they...
$99.99
Under The Sky Of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin And Blackness
A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great....
$41.99
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative
In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age,...
$55.99
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative
In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age,...
$212.50