Race & Culture
Race & Culture
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.
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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
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean (Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving)
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of...
$134.99
Africa's Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
This extensively researched history traces the lives of black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia who, still enslaved at the time, arrived with the influx of black loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783.
$28.99
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
$126.50
Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the...
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
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Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands
Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and...
$163.49
Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
"This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." ―Judith A. Byfield, DartmouthIn this study of the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New...
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Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations
While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a...
$137.98
Africans Are Not Black: The case for conceptual liberation (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)
Africans are not literally black, yet they are called black. Why? This book explores the genesis and evolution of the description of Africans as black, the consequences of this practice, and how it contributes to the denigration (blackening) and dehumanisation...
$195.50
African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Race and Reason (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain. It was a period marked by expeditions to the New World, Africa, and the Orient, and these voyages were reflected in the travel literature of the era. It...
$109.99
African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil (New World Diasporas)
“A sophisticated and thoughtful analysis of mid-twentieth-century cultural politics, recognizing both the fundamental changes that took place as Afro-Bahian cultural politics became incorporated into representations of Bahia and the limited material gains for Afro-Bahians during this period.”—Hendrik Kraay, editor of Negotiating...
$86.99
The African Presence in Santo Domingo
Throughout its long and often tumultuous history, “La Hispanola” has taken on various cultural identities to meet the expectations―and especially the demands―of those who governed it. The island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti saw its first great shift...
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African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
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African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated...
$57.00
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned...
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The African Difference: Discourses on Africanity and the Relativity of Cultures (Studies in African and Afro-American Culture)
By rejecting Western perceptions of Africa as a starting point for African philosophy, Oyekan Owomoyela challenges ideas about African culture held by many Western and African thinkers and confronts the West's assumptions of its philosophical superiority. His concept of African...
$46.99
The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion (Religion/Culture/Critique)
This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
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