Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space...
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Una Larga Travesía Hasta El Agua: Basada en una historia real
This high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom. Una larga travesía hasta el agua, bestseller del New York Times, comienza como dos historias, que...
$18.99
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture (CD)
From Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes a timely and resonant essay collection exploring the ways in which Black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own...
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Turtle Bogue: Afro-Caribbean Life and Culture in a Costa Rican Village
This study records an oral history and ethnography of the Afro-Caribbean individuals and families who settled in Tortuguero, a small village in northeastern Costa Rica. It is the product of nine months of field work in Costa Rica by the...
$128.00
Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State
People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part...
$84.00
Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This...
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Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This...
$220.00
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Troubling Vision addresses American culture’s fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black...
$130.00
Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family
Scholarly and stimulating look at the importance of the Bible for Blacks and of Blacks in the Bible."Lucidly written with profound messages . . ."-Black Issues in Higher Education A comprehensive and challenging look at the significance of the Bible...
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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied...
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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied...
$129.99
The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean,...
$65.00
Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and...
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Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica
Despite outstanding histories and ethnographies on maroons, there has been little attempt to draw modern maroons into a comparative perspective with the descendants of emancipated slaves who are the majority of African-Americans today. There is therefore a gap in the...
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The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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