Race & Culture
Race & Culture
Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
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Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood simply...
$49.99
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
Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians...
$39.99
Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians...
$180.00
Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution
For many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride, while after U.S. intervention the suppression of Afro-Cuban aspirations created a strong interest among...
$64.99
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 the Lines: Africa in Western Spirituality, Philosophy, and Literary Theory
Africa’s history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity...
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Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature
Between Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes. It is the first book to explore the literary representation by authors black and white, male and female, of interracial relations between France and...
$103.50
Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans,...
$32.00
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity
Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and coloured people, none of them favourable, and most of which have reinforced stereotyped and derogatory images. Beyond the Masks is a readable account of black psychology, exploring key...
$74.99
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
$143.99
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of biomedical researchers, including those searching for a genetic link to the disease. The high rate of asthma among African American children has made...
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Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
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Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of biomedical researchers, including those searching for a genetic link to the disease. The high rate of asthma among African American children has made...
$40.00
The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
$23.00
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora (Materializing Culture
t is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'. Yet despite this high profile, in-depth explorations...
$138.00
Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial...
$56.00
The Black Agenda
"The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is...
$19.00
The Black Agenda
"The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is...
$28.99
Black and Blur
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
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Black and Blur
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the...
$129.50
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and...
$123.50
Black Atlantic Politics: Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool
Winner of the 2000 Best Book on Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics Presented by the American Political Science Association, Section of Race, Ethnicity, and PoliticsThis first comprehensive comparative study of Black politics focuses on American and British settings—Boston and Liverpool....
$119.00
The Black Butterfly
The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil’s literary giants—Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through...
$119.98
The Black Butterfly
The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil’s literary giants—Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the...
$41.49
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together...
$45.95
Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States. But how will these "new blacks" behave politically in America? Using...
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Black Europe and the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions...
$36.99
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the...
$134.99
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the...
$35.99
Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority―and linked the Americas together.In Black Freedom...
$107.98