Social Science
Social Science
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was...
$195.00
Theodore Gericault, Painting Black Bodies: Confrontations and Contradictions
This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of...
$212.50
Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
Marquis Bey’s debut collection, Them Goon Rules, is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know.A series of essays that reads like a critical memoir, this work...
$23.99
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of...
$37.00
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life,
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of...
$149.99
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern...
$56.25
Teoría general de la relatividad de la psique Doctrina de la psicología: Doctrina de Psique Bipolar y Psicosis Primaria
Entonces, ¿qué podemos decir sobre la psique? Científicamente hablando, solo esto es lo que se puede observar. Por supuesto, como muestra el ejemplo de Copérnico, la observación en sí misma no es garantía de que lo que vemos sea lo...
$51.50
Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity
Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm—particularly during...
$51.99
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never...
$29.95
The Tears of the Black Man
In TheTears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by...
$22.00
Tambú: Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory
As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú,...
$33.75
Talking About Race
What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children...
$51.99
Talking About Race
What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children...
$220.00
Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation
Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation is one of the most powerful and effective books ever written on one of the oldest economic systems practiced. The Book is the second part of...
$24.95
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine
Sustaining Black Music and Culture during COVID-19: #Verzuz and Club Quarantine argues that Instagram is a premier digital leisure space to celebrate and promote Black American culture and identity, particularly evidenced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as...
$130.00
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
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on...
$41.99
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on...
$104.00
Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Overachieve, Be Cheerful, or Confront
How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own...
$144.00
Straightening the Bell Curve: How Stereotypes about Black Masculinity Drive Research on Race and Intelligence
Straightening the Bell Curve offers a new way of looking at the distressingly persistent subject of intelligence research as it relates to race and gender. Constance Hilliard’s premise―that researchers preoccupied with proving racial hierarchies often sacrifice scientific truth to masculine insecurities―rests...
$24.95
Stolen Life
"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...
$34.99
Stolen Life (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...
$129.99
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
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