American History
American History
Class and Consciousness: The Black Petty Bourgeoisie in South Africa, 1924 to 1950
This is the first book to discuss the emergence and nature of the black bourgeoisie in South Africa in its historical context as a class in itself and for itself. It reveals how, by the 1920s, the black petty bourgeoisie...
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Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean
Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their...
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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
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Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century
The decline of the native population following the Spanish conquest of New Spain in 1521, among other factors, led to an increased demand for African slaves to add to the labor force and bolster the colonial economy. Approximately two hundred...
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Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a...
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Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a...
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Children of the Liberation
This volume was originally published in German in 2015, commemorating the end of World War II seventy years earlier and acknowledging the contribution of African American soldiers to Germany’s liberation from fascist rule. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it collects the...
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The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
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The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation
How emancipation transformed social and political relations in BarbadosWhen a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored...
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Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era
Winner of the Lynna Kay Shuffield Memorial Award in Texas Jewish History, 2022.Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston’s history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both...
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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo and Angola. This region had embraced Christianity and elements of...
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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo and Angola. This region had embraced Christianity and elements of...
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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures
Central Africa in the Caribbean is the product of more than three decades of research. Maureen Warner-Lewis’s pioneering study analyses some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean, with fascinating transatlantic comparative data. She identifies...
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Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone
Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent...
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Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone
Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas. Both a memoir and a scholarly study, Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones explores the multivalent...
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Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were...
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C. L. R. James On The 'Negro Question'
The first collection of writings on African-American topics by this internationally influential pan-African thinker
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Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg.This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that...
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Britain’s ‘brown babies’: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War
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Britain’s ‘brown babies’: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War
This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children ‘brown babies’; the British called them ‘half-castes’. Black GIs, in...
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured,...
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured,...
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Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
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Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology...
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Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the...
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The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and...
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The Blacks of Premodern China
Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as "black." The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the Malayans. But by the midimperial times of the seventh through seventeenth...
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BLACKS IN THE BIBLE: Volume I: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture
The first question the New Testament asks a Black man found reading Old Testament Scripture is ?Do you understand what you are reading?? (Acts 8:30) The Ethiopian replied, ?How can I, except some man should guide me?? Whether Black or...
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BLACKS IN THE BIBLE: Volume I: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture
The first question the New Testament asks a Black man found reading Old Testament Scripture is ?Do you understand what you are reading?? (Acts 8:30) The Ethiopian replied, ?How can I, except some man should guide me?? Whether Black or...
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Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development
Beginning with the Spanish conquest, Mexico has become a racially complex society intermixing Indian, Spanish, and African populations. Questions of race and ethnicity have fueled much political and scholarly debate, sometimes obscuring the experiences of particular groups, especially blacks. Blacks in...
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Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience
The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many...
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Blacks and Whites in Sao Paulo, Brazil 1888-1988
In this work, Andrews provides a history of Brazilian racial inequality from the abolition of slavery in 1888 up to the late 1980s, showing how economic, social and political changes in Brazil during the last 100 years have shaped race...
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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the teatro bufo, and of related forms of music,...
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Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
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Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African...
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