Social Science
Social Science
Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian...
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Race in Cuba: Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality
As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian...
$110.50
Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality
Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and...
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Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to...
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Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse...
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Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse...
$247.00
Race, Class, Politics and the Struggle for Empowerment in Barbados, 1914-1937
In the immediate post Emancipation period, and continuing into the early twentieth century, there was little tolerance and outright opposition to any enfranchisement of the black and coloured working class population in Barbados. David Browne, in examining the struggles of...
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Race and the Writing of History: Riddling the Sphinx
Despite increased interest in recent years in the role of race in Western culture, scholars have neglected much of the body of work produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by black intellectuals. For example, while DuBois' thoughts about Africa...
$234.00
Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil
In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color....
$162.00
Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s residents...
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Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s residents...
$123.50
Race and the Black Male Subculture: The Lives of Toby Waller
This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary chapters, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is...
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Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
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Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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