Social Science
Social Science
Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of...
$133.99
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$138.00
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
“A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.”—Guardian“For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book.”—Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history...
$22.95
Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits...
$44.00
Sport, Difference and Belonging: Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more...
$220.00
The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse
Current interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, for cultural beacons. Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on...
$34.99
Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad,...
$32.50
Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad
In Spiritual Citizenship N. Fadeke Castor employs the titular concept to illuminate how Ifá/Orisha practices informed by Yoruba cosmology shape local, national, and transnational belonging in African diasporic communities in Trinidad and beyond. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in Trinidad,...
$123.50
Spirits, Blood and Drums: The Orisha Religion in Trinidad
James Houk's field work in Trinidad and subsequent involvement in the Orisha religion allows him a uniquely intimate perspective on a complex and eclectic religion. Originating in Nigeria, Orisha combines elements of African religions (notably Yoruba), Catholicism, Hinduism, Protestantism Spiritual...
$48.99
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people...
$146.99
Spirited Things: The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people...
$49.00
Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these...
$74.00
The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States
Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationTheories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in...
$46.00
The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States
Top Three Finalist for the 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationTheories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in...
$118.75
South Africa's Emergent Middle Class
This book is drawn from diverse studies that grapple with Black Middle Class experiences in contemporary and historical South Africa. The chapters present research from diverse disciplines, and tackle issues related to being black and middle class, using both quantitative...
$149.50
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
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...
$104.00
Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
$59.00
Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist...
$312.00
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
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America
Almost eleven of the twelve million Africans who survived the trauma of enslavement in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage, remade their lives in territories claimed by Spain or Portugal. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused sources,...
$45.50
Slavery in Dutch South Africa
This was the first comprehensive analysis of slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652–1795) when it was published in 1985. Based on archival research in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa, it examines the...
$50.99
Slavery in Brazil
Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil...
$96.00
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
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
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
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen edited by author May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz. It is the first published book by Afro-Germans. It is the first written use...
$35.00