American History
American History
Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism (African Expressive Cultures)
"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin." ―Alec Hargreaves, Florida State UniversityFrance has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence...
$34.50
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru (Volume 41) (McGill-Queen's Associated Medical ... the History of Medicine, Health, and Society)
In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent...
$56.49
Black Cultural Life in South Africa: Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics (African Perspectives)
Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government’s policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their...
$91.99
Black Cultural Life in South Africa: Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics (African Perspectives)
Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government’s policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely engaged with an array of textual and visual cultures in ways that shaped their...
$28.99
Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions
For researchers seeking detailed information about the black diaspora in North America, this authoritative reference provides more than 300 years of black Canadian history, from the first migration of slaves, black loyalists, and Civil War refugees to the expansive movement...
$32.00
Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions
For researchers seeking detailed information about the black diaspora in North America, this authoritative reference provides more than 300 years of black Canadian history, from the first migration of slaves, black loyalists, and Civil War refugees to the expansive movement...
$40.00
'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700
Black British Migrants in Cuba offers a comprehensive study of migration from the British Caribbean to Cuba in the pre-World War II era, spotlighting an important chapter of the larger trajectory of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Grounded in extensive and rigorous...
$150.00
Black British Migrants in Cuba (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)
Black British Migrants in Cuba offers a comprehensive study of migration from the British Caribbean to Cuba in the pre-World War II era, spotlighting an important chapter of the larger trajectory of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Grounded in extensive and rigorous...
$41.99
Black British Migrants in Cuba (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora)
Black British Migrants in Cuba offers a comprehensive study of migration from the British Caribbean to Cuba in the pre-World War II era, spotlighting an important chapter of the larger trajectory of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Grounded in extensive and rigorous...
$146.99
Black British History: New Perspectives (Blackness in Britain)
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London...
$126.50
Black British History: New Perspectives (Blackness in Britain)
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London...
$35.95
Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader (Black Literature and Culture)
Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection...
$37.95
Black Britain: A Photographic History
People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of black Britishness, has assembled a living history of black people in the British Isles....
$35.00
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
$168.00
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
$39.99
Bitita's Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations...
$74.99
Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations...
$195.50
Biography and the Black Atlantic
In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and...
$90.99
Biko's Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness
“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice...
$29.95
Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko
This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.
$68.99
Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black...
$42.99
Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
The first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black...
$147.00
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
Beyond Black and Red is the first book to deal primarily and specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Matthew Restall has collected nine essays that represent contributions to the larger fields of colonial Latin American...
$34.49
Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St Vincent During the Apprenticeship
On August 1, 1834, more than 20,000 African slaves were emancipated in the British Caribbean. As in other areas of the British Empire, however, only slave children under six years of age were freed immediately. The rest were apprenticed to...
$46.00
Between Black and White: Race, Politics, and the Free Coloreds in Jamaica, 1792-1865
The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean.
$109.00
The Best of the Little Known Black History Facts
This book attempts to present facts to help you to read between the lines to discern the truth. Read, meditate, discern, know yourself, your human self, your family self and your GOD self
$14.95
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once...
$43.99
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti,...
$119.99
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti,...
$89.99
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
In this richly illustrated account of black–white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color.For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African...
$41.00