Race & Culture
Race & Culture
Survival of the Black Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy
Survival of the Black Family critically examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement. Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies...
$58.50
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes...
$26.99
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life comes...
$16.99
Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices on Racism - 100 Ways to Change the Narrative
Includes an audiobook-exclusive interview with the project’s editors, Suzette Llewellyn and Suzanne Packer. "A timely book and a conversation starter on race in Britain." (Rachel Edwards, author of Darling and Lucky) "A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain...
$25.99
South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko...
$68.99
The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, a"The Sorcery of Color"aargues that there are longstanding and deeply-rooted relationships between racial and gender inequalities in Brazil. In this pioneering book, Elisa Larkin Nascimento examines the social and cultural movements that have attempted,...
$86.00
Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963
Rebellions broke out in many areas of South Africa shortly after the institution of white rule in the late nineteenth century and continued into the next century. However, distrust of the colonial regime reached a new peak in the mid-twentieth...
$45.99
Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective
Tracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective...
$48.00
Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil: 'The Black Does not Enter the Church, He Peeks in From Outside'
"I confess: Great is my shame and great is the bewilderment of Christ's Church in Brazil, upon seeing unbelievers release their slaves out of simple love for humanity, while those who profess faith in the Redeemer of captives fail to...
$67.99
Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean
From the arrival of Hispanicized Africans during the Age of Discovery to today's renewal of racial identities, the history of Africans in Latin America has been complex, their contributions numerous. It is precisely this complexity that the essays in Slavery...
$82.00
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship
Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History)Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History)Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the...
$65.00
Skinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's AMERICANAH
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First Realize You Were Black? Provoked by the fraught relationship between the African continent and American culture in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, acclaimed Nigerian-American novelist Tochi Onyebuchi takes an emotional and intellectual...
$27.99
The Skin I`m In: Racism, Sports and Education
This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a first-hand personal quality to this study. As an educator he strives to...
$25.99
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
$68.99
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
$175.00
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$175.00
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$162.50
Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period
Shakespeare and Race is a provocative new study that reveals a connection between the subject of race in Shakespeare and the advent of early English colonialism. Citing generally neglected archival evidence, Imtiaz Habib argues that a small population of captured Indians...
$90.99
Shakespeare and Race
This volume draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion, identity, nationalism, and the distribution of power in Shakespeare's plays....
$61.00
Shakespeare and Race
This volume draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion, identity, nationalism, and the distribution of power in Shakespeare's plays....
$113.00
Shades of Black
One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a...
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$51.99
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. By connecting sex and...
$31.00
Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black
Return to Glory Will Challenge Everything You Were Ever Taught About Human History Beginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs it's readers on...
$21.50
Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities
The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in...
$123.50
Redemption of Africa and Black Religion
This monograph explains the role of religion in the colonies of Africa and among the people of African descent in the United States.
$10.95
Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers...
$84.50
Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers...
$208.00
Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School
As many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labor market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one...
$39.50
Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana
Rebel Destiny: Among The Bush Negroes Of Dutch Guiana is a non-fiction book written by Melville Jean Herskovits. The book describes the author's experiences and observations during his travels to Dutch Guiana (now known as Suriname) in the 1920s. Specifically,...
$53.99
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba
Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance....
$110.00