Political Science
Political Science
Race and Groupwork
Groupwork literature and practice theory is largely Eurocentric. The issues facing black groupworkers and the groupwork needs of service users from minority communities are inadequately addressed in available material. In some countries anti-racist and race equality perspectives are now under...
$140.00
Race And British Electoral Politics
This text examines key themes pertaining to the study of race and electoral politics. Addressing an issue which is of immense topical interest, it offers comprehensive coverage of key topics. Providing both an historical and theoretical analysis of race and...
$81.99
¿Quién fue Nelson Mandela? (Quien Fue? / Who Was?) (Spanish Edition)
s a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader...
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Psychology for Social Workers: Black Perspectives on Human Development and Behaviour
Social work education has recently undergone major changes, with anti-discriminatory practice being a high priority area in professional training. Psychology for Social Workers provides an introductory text which will help qualifying and practicing social workers to: understand and counteract the impact...
$63.99
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
$53.00
Psychology for Social Workers: Black Perspectives on Human Development and Behaviour
Social work education has recently undergone major changes, with anti-discriminatory practice being a high priority area in professional training. Psychology for Social Workers provides an introductory text which will help qualifying and practicing social workers to: understand and counteract the impact of...
$260.00
A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C
Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation’s capital. Revealing a vibrant past that dates back more than 125 years, the book explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals...
$240.00
A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C.
Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation’s capital. Revealing a vibrant past that dates back more than 125 years, the book explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals...
$64.00
Race and Occupation After World War I
Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This occupation, perceived as a humiliation by the political right, caused anger and dismay in...
$208.00
The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text
This fascinating book is an attempt to establish that in African, Afro-American and Caribbean literature certain primordial and mythic patterns recur sufficiently to be recognizable as familiar elements in our literary experience. Behind the pattern of each selected work, we...
$98.00
The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution
In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married...
$52.99
Políticas públicas e ações afirmativas (Portuguese Edition)
As políticas públicas no Brasil sempre foram implementadas em benefício de uns e prejuízo de outros. Resgatando o passado histórico brasileiro da época do “descobrimento” até os dias recentes, o autor mostra que o Estado brasileiro deixou sistematicamente de lado...
$37.99
The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle...
$36.00
The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
The postwar government of South Africa, led by H.F. Verwoerd, implemented wide-ranging racial segregation laws, beginning the open policy of apartheid in one of Africa's most prosperous and internationally influential states. During the apartheid era, the British government faced an...
$208.00
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
$48.00
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
$104.00
Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas
When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the economic development of the Global South. However, political scandals, mission-drift, and excessive commercialization have tarnished this example of responsible or...
$87.50
Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas
When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the economic development of the Global South. However, political scandals, mission-drift, and excessive commercialization have tarnished this example of responsible or...
$50.00
Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to “put forth an argument for...
$47.00
The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa
This book compares African and Afrikaner nationalisms to demonstrate that the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in South Africa was a neo-colonial settlement that left the economy and the military and security sectors under the control of the white...
$68.99
The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa
This book compares African and Afrikaner nationalisms to demonstrate that the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in South Africa was a neo-colonial settlement that left the economy and the military and security sectors under the control of the white...
$68.99
The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization
There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition is William...
$209.00
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
Choice Outstanding Academic Title African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book Prize A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Finalist, Association for the Study of African American...
$105.00
Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
In this fascinating treatment of "party" life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties. Party/Politics reveals new dimensions to the way we think about the cultural and political sphere, both nationally and transnationally. The author...
$94.00
Pan-africanism, Pan-africanists, and African Liberation in the 21st Century: Two Lectures
In this small work Professor Horace Campbell the veteran Pan-Africanist scholar and Rodney Worrell a young organic intellectual address some of the burning issues of Pan-Africanism. The publication is a hard hitting, provocative and enlightening discourse on Pan-Africanism. It is...
$22.00
Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism
This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities...
$144.00
The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago
Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a “dual city,” a condition taken for granted by many residents. In...
$146.99
The Oppositional Culture Theory
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt...
$60.00
One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating liberation histories today
An examination of the ANC in its centennial year.On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has generated significant public...
$60.00