The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present...
$47.00
The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present...
$92.50
Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa
The struggle for freedom in South Africa goes back a long way. In 1909, a remarkable interracial delegation of South Africans traveled to London to lobby for a non-racialized constitution and franchise for all. Among their allies was Mahatma Gandhi,...
$104.00
Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.
$208.00
The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text
This fascinating book is an attempt to establish that in African, Afro-American and Caribbean literature certain primordial and mythic patterns recur sufficiently to be recognizable as familiar elements in our literary experience. Behind the pattern of each selected work, we...
$98.00
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its...
$48.00 $39.00
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its...
$145.99
Place of Thorns: Black political protest in Kroonstad since 1976
Based on scores of life-history interviews, the book illustrates a shift in the political mood from 1976 onwards.Place of Thorns: Black Political protest in Kroonstad since 1976, is a landmark study that examines the tumultuous and often fractious politics in...
$36.00
The People’s Paper: A centenary history and anthology of Abantu-Batho
This much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of the major African multilingual newspaper, Abantu-Batho.Founded in 1912 by African National Congress (ANC) convenor Pixley Seme, with assistance from the Swazi Queen, it was published up until 1931, attracting the cream of...
$48.00
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the...
$46.99
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the...
$128.99
People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (Caribbean Studies Series)
Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue...
$65.00
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
The Oxford Companion to Black British History is an essential reference for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in Britain from classical times to the present day. It brings together a unique collection of...
$89.99
The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white...
$162.50
Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture
With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants suddenly saw waves of newcomers. In this...
$49.99
The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950
This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in...
$33.99
Origins of the Black Atlantic
Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The...
$212.50
Origins of the Black Atlantic
Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The...
$74.00
Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest
Organizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance...
$35.00
Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967
Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer...
$28.99
One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating liberation histories today
An examination of the ANC in its centennial year.On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has generated significant public...
$60.00
On the Treatment and Management of the More Common West-india Diseases, 1750-1802
This work brings together, in one volume, a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the...
$15.99
The Old Village and Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
''Meticulously researched and lucidly written, this valuable case study will be of interest not onlyto anthropologists but to all students of the African Diaspora to the Americas and the process ofacculturation among blacks in the new world.
$66.00
Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
This major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship is based on extensive fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Pitts, a scholar of anthropology and linguistics and a church pianist, played at and recorded...
$127.00
Old Roots in New Lands: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas
Old Roots in New Lands( Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas) <> Hardcover <> AnnM.Pescatello <> GreenwoodPress
$123.50
Black British Aesthetics Today
Black British Aesthetics Today is a collection of twenty-four exciting critical and theoretical essays exploring current thinking about the hottest artistic, literary, and critical works now being produced by black Britons. This book features a number of chapters by the...
$88.00
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in...
$37.00
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in...
$53.00
Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$138.00
Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$45.50

Showing: 541 - 570 of 3449

You have successfully subscribed!