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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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The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered (Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora)
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The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered (Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora)
One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by scholars whose work has made important contributions to the field of Bahian studies over the...
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The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus
The story of a mysterious southern Illinois treasure cave and its proof of the presence of Africans in North America long before Columbus.• Includes over 100 photographs of the artifacts discovered.• Re-creates the historic voyage of King Juba and his...
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The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race...
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The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race...
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The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and...
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London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims...
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Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835
After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos (peoples of mixed Spanish and indigenous Indian ancestry). Aline Helg...
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Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa
Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa is an account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. It covers the emergence of the movement’s ideas and practices in the context of the...
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence...
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler, and descendant of slaves, Sancho was the first author of African descent to have his correspondence...
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Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990
Providing an in-depth analysis of thirty years of South African opposition, this work focuses on the development of the Black Consciousness movement founded by Steve Biko, the ANC-aligned United Democratic Front, and the burgeoning trade unions, and examines how each...
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Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World
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Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World
Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes...
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Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust (Contributions to the Study of Religion)
Because the Holocaust, at its core, was an extreme expression of a devastating racism, the author contends it has special significance for African Americans. Locke, a university professor, clergyman, and African American, reflects on the common experiences of African American...
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The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
“No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force. The 1970s are a decade virtually lost...
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Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. The term 'Latinize' is introduced to connect France's early 19th-century endeavors to create “Latin America,”...
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The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context
There is extensive research found both in books and articles on the various topics of Afro Latinism/Afro Hispanism that is directed mainly at the non-native. Nonetheless, one still notices either cultural confusion or political reluctance to accept the identity of...
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The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
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The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more...
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Land, Chiefs, Mining: South Africa's North West Province since 1840
Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of...
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Keyboard Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography (Music Reference Collection)
Following the pattern established with his pioneering works String Music of Black Composers and Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the piano and related instruments (such as accordion, harpsichord, and organ). Composers from Africa as well...
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Keep On Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop
The marriage of music and social change didn’t originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In Keep On Pushing,...
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Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
“A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy’s brave crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr.,...
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The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton
When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian but for all African Canadians. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway looks at the history of blacks in the Ancaster-Burlington-Hamilton area, their long struggle for...
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Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony
Bigelow shows that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also highlights that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and...
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The Isis Yssis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New...
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Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa
In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation...
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Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a...
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Index to Afro-American Reference Resources.: (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
This volume makes a much-needed contribution to the field of Afro-American studies by providing subject access to a wealth of materials on the black experience in the Americas. Sources include titles generally considered to be reference tools, such as dictionaries,...
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In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by...
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