Cultural Literature
Cultural Literature
Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels,...
$143.99
Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity
This Book gives an overview and genealogy of Revivalism. It explores the role of the Revival Iconography in the building of a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and by extension African Jamaicans The Revival network was traced through a...
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Revival: An Anthology of the Best Black Canadian Writing
The success of George Elliott Clarke’s anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date...
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Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black
Return to Glory Will Challenge Everything You Were Ever Taught About Human History Beginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs it's readers on...
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Researching Black Communities: A Methodological Guide
Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative approaches—and how...
$123.00
Rescuing Our Roots: The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba
“Provides invaluable insight into the histories and lives of Cubans who trace their origins to the Anglo-Caribbean.”—Robert Whitney, author of State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920–1940 “Adds a missing piece to the existing literature about the renewal...
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Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television (Culture, Representation and Identity series)
`This is one of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade…. Sarita Malik′s book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on race, cultural studies and public pedagogy′ - Henry Giroux, Penn State...
$98.75
Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television (Culture, Representation and Identity series)
`This is one of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade…. Sarita Malik′s book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on race, cultural studies and public pedagogy′ - Henry Giroux, Penn State...
$251.25
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in...
$58.50
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in...
$123.50
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies AssociationWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological AssociationFinalist, 2017 Albert...
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Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas
Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the...
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Reinventing Religions: Syncretism and Transformation in Africa and the Americas
Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Building on a century-long tradition of scholarship, this important book formulates a broader view of the...
$64.99
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism
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Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil: From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil examines Black Brazilian political struggle and the predicaments it faces in a time characterized by the increasing institutionalization of ethno-racial policies and black participation in policy orchestration. Greater public debate and policy attention...
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Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism
Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley's greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley's live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric...
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Redemption of Africa and Black Religion
This monograph explains the role of religion in the colonies of Africa and among the people of African descent in the United States.
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Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School
As many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labor market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one...
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(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
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(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
$59.50
Reclaiming the Soil: A Black Girl’s Struggle to Find Her African Self
An extraordinary story of cultural confusion and the long way home to a black girl’s emotional roots. David Robbins The Rosie Motene story is about a young girl born to the Bafokeng nation during the apartheid era in South Africa....
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Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance....
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Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora through Folk Culture and Religion (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)
June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, MYAL, and Louisiana all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American...
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Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa
This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference...
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Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in...
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Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee
Through research spanning four centuries, in genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist literature, gothic horror and contemporary romance, Celia Daileader questions why Anglo-American culture's most widely-read canonical narratives of inter-racial sex feature a black male and a white...
$140.00
Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee
Through research spanning four centuries, in genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist literature, gothic horror and contemporary romance, Celia Daileader questions why Anglo-American culture's most widely-read canonical narratives of inter-racial sex feature a black male and a white...
$66.00
Racism, Culture, Markets
Racism, Culture, Markets explores the connections between cultural representations of `race' and their historical, institutional and global forms of expression and impact. John Gabriel examines the current fixation with market place philosophies in terms of the crisis in anti-racist politics...
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Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
he first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
$118.99
Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
“An important contribution to U.S.-Caribbean dialogues in the field of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures.”―Jossianna Arroyo, author of Travestismos culturales: literature y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil “Maguire’s close readings of women ethnographers like Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston result in...
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Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of current debates and research in issues relating to race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. It focuses on the extent of racial inequality while encapsulating the character of recent theories and debates that...
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