Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States
Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationTheories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in...
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The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States
Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationTheories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in...
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Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots
“Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga’s family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . [An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her...
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The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, a"The Sorcery of Color"aargues that there are longstanding and deeply-rooted relationships between racial and gender inequalities in Brazil. In this pioneering book, Elisa Larkin Nascimento examines the social and cultural movements that have attempted,...
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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
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Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective
Tracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective...
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Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
One reason that Schwartz is the leading authority on colonial Brazilian social and economic history (especially slavery) is that he ranges widely, addressing comparative themes and reexamining traditional interpretations about society. This collection of essays reconsiders the critical issues of...
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Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations: Connecting Old and New Diasporas to the Homeland
From the historical movements of enslaved Africans to the Americas to newer migrations of Africans to spaces like Belgium and France, experiences of blackness on a global stage reflect themes of negotiation, persecution, isolation, unification, remembrance, and much more. Yet,...
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Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
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Shades of Black
One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a...
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$129.99