American History
American History
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$44.00
Becoming Brazilians
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation...
$152.00
Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico
This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups...
$144.00
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto: A history of medical care 1941–1990
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state....
$36.00
Avidly Reads Passages
"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel―the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus―to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process,...
$14.95
Avidly Reads Passages
"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel―the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus―to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process,...
$90.99
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans
The Aubrys - Free People of Color in Early New Orleans and other Allied Families including: Allain, Bonneval, Bringier, Chiapella, Coudrain, Dalcour, Delachaise, Domingon, Dupuy, Edmunds, Flot, Foy, Grandmaison, Lassize, Latrobe, Lemelle, Lorreins, Ozenne, Pinta, Raby, Rigaud, St. Hubert, Watkinson,...
$86.00
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually...
$42.49
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is...
$97.99
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After...
$49.99
As We Saw It: The Story of Integration at the University of Texas at Austin
In 2016, the University of Texas at Austin celebrated two important milestones: the thirtieth anniversary of the Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights and the sixtieth anniversary of the first black undergraduate students to enter the university. These historic moments...
$32.00
The Art of Life in South Africa
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and...
$114.95
The Art of Life in South Africa
From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and...
$42.49
April's Revolution: A Modern Perspective of American Medical Care of Civil War Soldiers and African Slaves
The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field. Bloodshed on the battlefield and the spread of disease led to advances in medical decision making and...
$29.95
April's Revolution: A Modern Perspective of American Medical Care of Civil War Soldiers and African Slaves
The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field. Bloodshed on the battlefield and the spread of disease led to advances in medical decision making and...
$19.95
Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa
In this single square mile hemmed in by White areas, residents engaged in what is arguably the most multi-faceted, inventive, and versatile strategy of resistance during the 1970s. Apartheid on a Black Isle brings to the fore the definitive but...
$137.50
Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa
In this single square mile hemmed in by White areas, residents engaged in what is arguably the most multi-faceted, inventive, and versatile strategy of resistance during the 1970s. Apartheid on a Black Isle brings to the fore the definitive but...
$137.50
Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the...
$40.99
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other”
This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in...
$65.49
Ancient and Modern Britons, Vol. 2
This volume work of Scottish Historian David Mac Ritchie, 1851-1925, first published in 1884 and long out of print, its impact will have as profound an impact as Gerald Massey and Godfey Higgins.
$24.95
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
* A New Republic Best Book of the Year * The Globalist Top Books of the Year * Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction *Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating...
$40.00
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
* A New Republic Best Book of the Year * The Globalist Top Books of the Year * Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction *Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating...
$18.00
Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood...
$276.00
Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood...
$79.49
Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants―both free and enslaved―participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that...
$50.49
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as...
$40.00
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as...
$156.00
Afrodeutscher Aktivismus: Interventionen von Kolonisierten am Wendepunkt der Dekolonisierung Deutschlands 1919 (Zivilisationen und Geschichte
Nach Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs wurden nicht nur in Europa Machtverhältnisse neu ausgehandelt und Grenzen neu gezogen. Während in Deutschland erst das Kaiserreich und dann die Revolution scheiterte, die erste deutsche Republik gegründet und bald darauf zerstört wurde, nahmen Kolonisierte...
$71.00
Afrodescendientes en la independencia
Afrodescendientes en la independencia relata la participacion de la comunidad negra en las guerras de independencia, la conquista de la libertad y la consolidacion de la democracia en todo el continente americano, desde Alaska hasta la Patagonia. Puede ver mas...
$68.99
Afro-Asian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$36.00