Social Science
Social Science
Unraveling the Story of Black/African Hair
Saye Carrie is back with her second book. This time she brings black/African hair to the forefront. Hair has played a major role in the lives of black women and girls. Our "Crown and Glory" has direct links back to...
$14.99
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
"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...
$81.00
The Universal Machine
"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...
$33.50
The Universal Machine
"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...
$129.99
Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love...
$46.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
$64.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they...
$64.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
$99.99
Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity
How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they...
$99.99
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative
In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age,...
$55.99
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative
In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as "life, love, death, sex." From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age,...
$212.50
The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity among Black Women in College
Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. The Unchosen...
$80.00
Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space...
$36.00
Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space...
$115.99
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture (CD)
From Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes a timely and resonant essay collection exploring the ways in which Black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own...
$47.99
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture ( Paperback)
From Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes a timely and resonant essay collection exploring the ways in which Black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own...
$16.99
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture (CD)
From Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes a timely and resonant essay collection exploring the ways in which Black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history, with ruminations on body politics, race, pop culture, and Dabiri’s own...
$79.98
Turtle Bogue: Afro-Caribbean Life and Culture in a Costa Rican Village
This study records an oral history and ethnography of the Afro-Caribbean individuals and families who settled in Tortuguero, a small village in northeastern Costa Rica. It is the product of nine months of field work in Costa Rica by the...
$128.00
Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State
People of African descent living in the Colombian Andes had long been struggling, as peasants and workers, for political participation and equal citizenship. When the 1991 Colombian Constitution enabled them to claim territory as ethnic groups, their demands became part...
$84.00
Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from...
$128.99
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Troubling Vision addresses American culture’s fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black...
$130.00
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Troubling Vision addresses American culture’s fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black...
$45.50
Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family
Scholarly and stimulating look at the importance of the Bible for Blacks and of Blacks in the Bible."Lucidly written with profound messages . . ."-Black Issues in Higher Education A comprehensive and challenging look at the significance of the Bible...
$29.00
Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for...
$117.00
Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for...
$35.99
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
$34.99
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied...
$34.99
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
$129.99
Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied...
$129.99
The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean,...
$65.00
The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives explores relationships among African American, Afro-Caribbean,...
$45.50
Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880
Winner, 2008 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region’s socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and...
$75.99
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the...
$68.99
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the...
$68.99