American History
American History
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and...
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The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes...
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The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes...
$129.99
New Trends and Developments in African Religions (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
African religions, as well as those religions that derive much of their cosmology, beliefs, and rituals from African religions, are becoming more international in scope and appeal. Yet they continue to be viewed either as indiscriminately adaptable or as static...
$123.50
Narrative Projections of a Black British History (Routledge Approaches to History)
Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I...
$220.00
Nago Grandma and White Papa: Candomble and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity (Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução)
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This edition makes Beatriz Gois Dantas's historioethnographic study available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.Dantas compares the...
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México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
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México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
$118.75
Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies
"A provocative explanation of how differences in slavery and later abolition movements produced different responses in post-abolition societies and contributed significantly to the creation of the southern myth."--Sylvia Frey, Tulane University Providing new insights into the origins of benevolent myths...
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern...
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My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with...
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Multiculturalismo y Jerarquización Racial: Las interminables transgresiones, memorias de la diáspora africana- Las huellas de la emigración ... a los escolares – Estud (Spanish Edition)
«Multiculturalismo y Jerarquización Racial» se ocupa en su especificidad del desarrollo social, cultural, político e histórico de Colombia, América Latina y el Caribe, en sus perspectivas nacionales y transnacionales de acuerdo a la actual tendencia, la integración. Precisamente, aquí confluyen,...
$94.99
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions...
$143.99
Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and...
$55.00
Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a 'moral contagion' of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived...
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Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a 'moral contagion' of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived...
$84.99
"Mommie, What Is A Nigger?': The Case of the CenturIes
"Nigger"! LET THE READING, DISCUSSION and the ERRADICATON BEGIN. IT STARTS WITH YOU! "Mommie, what Is A Nigger?" The Case Of The Centuries is a book with a word that seems to make many people run the other way. The...
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Moments of Cooperation and Incorporation: African American and African Jamaican Connections, 1782–1996
Moments of Cooperation and Incorporation is a set of six essays showcasing moments between 1782 and 1996 when the Jamaican and American people of the African diaspora have cooperated with each other in the socio-geographic spaces of each. For both groups,...
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Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past...
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Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past...
$143.99
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that...
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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
$128.99
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Hardcover)
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that...
$128.99
MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue
Midwives, herbalists, mesmerists, and other healers among the slaves on the Caribbean island treated their fellow slaves, white residents, and non-human animals with their own combination of Western, African, and Caribbean remedies. Weaver (American history and history of medicine, Susquehanna...
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The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pitt Latin American Series)
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The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pitt Latin American Series)
In this interdisciplinary study, scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States. What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation...
$66.00
Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica
Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere.Located at the gateway to the New World in the...
$68.99
Manners Make a Nation Racial etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963
Shortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver PrizeTells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics.This book tells the story of...
$66.00
Mandela, Tambo and the African National Congress: The Struggle Against Apartheid, 1948-1990
This timely documentary history provides a unique analysis of contemporary South African politics, covering the forty-two-year period between the ruling National Party's electoral victory of 1948 and the subsequent institution of apartheid, to the recent release from prison of Nelson...
$142.99
Malcolm X on Afro-American History (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)
A Pathfinder upgraded edition.
Recounts the hidden history of the labor of people of African origin and their achievements.
Preface by Steve Clark, maps, photos, drawings, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.
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Malcolm X and Africa
"This is an authoritative book on a critical aspect of Malcolm X's courageous political work and thought. Connecting the struggle of Africans and African Americans for liberation to the geopolitics of the Cold War in Africa, this impressive book documents...
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Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a...
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