Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
$78.00
The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors...
$78.00
Toubab La! Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora
The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, the French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Jamaica), Europe (France and England) and Africa (Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana and Senegal). The...
$88.00
Timeless: Photographs by Kamoinge
Recognized by the New York Times as one of the Best Photography Books. Immerse yourself in the visual stream created over the first 50 years by Kamoinge, a pioneering photographic collective founded in 1963 in New York City, at the height of...
$60.00
Time in the Black Experience (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)
In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide...
$178.00
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
$31.00
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next...
$26.95
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
$45.99
Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 (Volume 14)
It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to...
$123.50
There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by...
$32.50
There All Along, Black Participation in the Church of the Nazarene, 1914- 1969
This book provides the history of black participation in the Church of the Nazarene from its very beginning.
$58.99
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was...
$24.99
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was...
$29.99
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was...
$195.00
Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
Marquis Bey’s debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know.A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work...
$23.99
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of...
$37.00
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern...
$56.25
Teoría general de la relatividad de la psique Doctrina de la psicología: Doctrina de Psique Bipolar y Psicosis Primaria
Entonces, ¿qué podemos decir sobre la psique? Científicamente hablando, solo esto es lo que se puede observar. Por supuesto, como muestra el ejemplo de Copérnico, la observación en sí misma no es garantía de que lo que vemos sea lo...
$51.50
Tell It as It Is
About this book-by Author Christopher A Thompson. Special Note to my dear readers: Making absolute difference to pave the way for a brighter future, has always been the vision of author Christopher A Thompson... From the secluded village of mountainous Saint...
$44.99
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never...
$29.95
The Tears of the Black Man
In TheTears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by...
$22.00
Talking About Race
What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children...
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Talking About Race
What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children...
$220.00
Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation
Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation is one of the most powerful and effective books ever written on one of the oldest economic systems practiced. The Book is the second part of...
$24.95
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as...
$130.00
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy
Survival of the Black Family critically examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement. Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies...
$58.50
Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Overachieve, Be Cheerful, or Confront
How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own...
$144.00
Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits...
$44.00
Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more...
$220.00
Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad,...
$123.50
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people...
$146.99