American History
American History
Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
The 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.
$29.99
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
Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia (1790s-1840s)
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region’s transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in...
$168.00
Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784-1834: The Nonviolent Transformation from a Slave to a Free Society
This deeply researched, clearly written book is a history of black society and its relations with whites in the Bahamas from the close of the American Revolution to emancipation. Whittington B. Johnson examines the communities developed by free, bonded, and...
$39.95
Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil: Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Brazil has undertaken affirmative action in its universities on an unprecedented scale. An expert group of international scholars puts the new policies in historical, political, and legal context; evaluates their outcomes for students and universities; and demonstrates that the policies...
$175.00
Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to...
$44.00
Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx
Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa...
$234.00
Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The West Indian Immigrant Worker Experience in Puerto Rico, 1800-1850
Chinea examines the social, economic, and political impact of foreign immigrants in Puerto Rico during its transition from subsistence farming and ranching in the late 18th century to commercial agriculture during the first half of the 19th century. He provides...
$77.99
Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on...
$74.99
Race and Occupation After World War I
Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This occupation, perceived as a humiliation by the political right, caused anger and dismay in...
$208.00
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...
$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
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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)
$65.00
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