Social Science
Social Science
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...
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Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain
Covering a key topic in sociology, this work is a thorough and lively introduction to the role and importance of race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. Discussions include the study of race and ethnicity in Britain, the role of...
$60.00
Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective: The National Political Science Review
Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of...
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Race and Ethnicity: Across Time, Space and Discipline
Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain impervious to many of us. Hence in this volume authors were challenged to think outside the box. As such, scholars were encouraged to...
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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...
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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 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 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
Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
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Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty
Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
$118.99
Psychology for Social Workers: Black Perspectives on Human Development and Behaviour
Social work education has recently undergone major changes, with anti-discriminatory practice being a high priority area in professional training. Psychology for Social Workers provides an introductory text which will help qualifying and practicing social workers to: understand and counteract the impact...
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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
Psychology for Social Workers: Black Perspectives on Human Development and Behaviour
Social work education has recently undergone major changes, with anti-discriminatory practice being a high priority area in professional training. Psychology for Social Workers provides an introductory text which will help qualifying and practicing social workers to: understand and counteract the impact of...
$260.00
Race and Occupation After World War I
Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This occupation, perceived as a humiliation by the political right, caused anger and dismay in...
$208.00
The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present...
$92.50
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its...
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The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its...
$145.99
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago...
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Postnegritude Visual and Literary Culture
In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of...
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Postnegritude Visual and Literary Culture
In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of...
$118.75
Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands
We do not consider it noteworthy when somebody moves three thousand miles from New York to Los Angeles. Yet we think that movement across borders requires a major degree of adjustment, and that an individual who migrates 750 miles from...
$51.00
Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with...
$124.99
Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
$124.99
Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with...
$124.99
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
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The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group...
$104.00
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years...
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Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years...
$32.50
The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire
Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire are considered by many critics and literary historians to be the foremost Caribbean poets of the 20th century, yet they are rarely treated together. This work deals with the two writers within a comparative framework,...
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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright...
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Perspectives of Black Histories in Schools (Research in Social Education)
Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, we have seen k- 12 Black history expand as an academic subject, which has altered research...
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