Race & Culture
Race & Culture
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
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and...
$32.00
The Performative Sustainability of Race: Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity (Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative, this book is a critical examination of the performative sustainability of race, particularly blackness, through commentaries on White Studies, art depictions of African American culture in the rural...
$64.00
The Performative Sustainability of Race: Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative, this book is a critical examination of the performative sustainability of race, particularly blackness, through commentaries on White Studies, art depictions of African American culture in the rural...
$215.99
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the...
$41.99
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the...
$132.99
Picture Perfect: The Story of Black's Photography
One of Canada's most successful homegrown buisnesses, Black's Photography grew from a single store to a national, and international, chain. Robert Black, the former Vice President, weaves his own, and his family's, story into the history of the company. Beginning...
$29.95
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
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
$110.00
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of...
$110.00
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
Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
$118.99
Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil
This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in...
$220.00
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
Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-Caste-in-Class
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of...
$220.00
Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-Caste-in-Class
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of...
$68.99
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 the Black Male Subculture: The Lives of Toby Waller
This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary chapters, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is...
$149.99
Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian...
$110.50
Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil: Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Brazil has undertaken affirmative action in its universities on an unprecedented scale. An expert group of international scholars puts the new policies in historical, political, and legal context; evaluates their outcomes for students and universities; and demonstrates that the policies...
$175.00
Race, Religion, and A Curriculum of Reparation: Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society
$54.99
Race, Religion, and A Curriculum of Reparation: Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society
Re-narrating the story of Noah and Schreber, William F. Pinar's new book offers a compelling interpretation of race relations in education. In his signature style, Pinar argues that race is a patriarchal production and a gendered contract between father and...
$54.99
Race, Religion, and A Curriculum of Reparation: Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society
$109.99
Race, Religion, and A Curriculum of Reparation: Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society
Re-narrating the story of Noah and Schreber, William F. Pinar's new book offers a compelling interpretation of race relations in education. In his signature style, Pinar argues that race is a patriarchal production and a gendered contract between father and...
$109.99
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
$150.00
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an...
$150.00
Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading...
$146.99
Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi (German and European Studies)
$93.00
Race under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi (German and European Studies)
Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle's Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools...
$93.00
Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of current debates and research in issues relating to race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. It focuses on the extent of racial inequality while encapsulating the character of recent theories and debates that...
$68.99
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as...
$136.50
Racial Structure and Radical Politics in the African Diaspora: Volume 2, Africana Studies
This is a must read book for anyone interested in the areas of racial theory and racial relations, multicultural and polarized religions, and the making of African personality and culture. In keeping with earlier volumes in the series, it emphasizes...
$74.00
Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and...
$138.00
Racialized Consciousness
Racialized Consciousness discusses how race, as an invention, has had profound consequences on the economic, political, and social conditions of humans across the world, particularly in the United States. Today, it continues to manifest in those conditions while shaping in no...
$145.00