Race & Culture
Race & Culture
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular...
$36.00
Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religionSo much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular...
$102.00
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race,...
$102.00
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race,...
$36.00
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged...
$25.95
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
Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic...
$35.99
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great...
$34.99
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great...
$128.99
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia: Language, Culture, Identity
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations...
$68.99
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia: Language, Culture, Identity
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations...
$68.99
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations paints a rich canvas of Black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient...
$40.00
Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora
Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced African-derived religions in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo. Examining court cases,...
$40.00
Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora
Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced African-derived religions in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo. Examining court cases,...
$126.50
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
'Lucid, fluent and compelling' – Observer'We need writers like Andrews ... These are truths we need to be hearing' – New StatesmanBack to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its...
$24.95
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural...
$32.00
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural...
$126.50
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
$57.99
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and...
$57.99
Apartheid's Great Land Theft: The Struggle for the Right to Farm in South Africa
The forced dispossession of Africans from the land was central to the origins of the apartheid system. The fight to regain access to the land is key to forging an alliance of exploited producers that can successfully carry through to...
$8.00
Anti-Racist Probation Practice
The probation service has committed itself to anti-racist initiatives and those promoting equal opportunities for some time. However, the experiences of black people, whether as workers or 'clients' indicates that the realities of day-to-day practice are far removed from this....
$72.49
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-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$41.99
Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$124.00
Antiblackness
Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century...
$37.49
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...
$225.00
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh...
$124.00
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh...
$31.00
Another Black Like Me: the Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora
This book brings together authors from different institutions and perspectives and from researchers specializing in different aspects of the experiences of the African Diaspora from Latin America. It creates an overview of the complexities of the lives of Black people...
$94.99
AfroAsian 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...
$102.99