Social Science
Social Science
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...
$45.99
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...
$39.99
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
$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
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...
$48.00
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...
$22.00
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...
$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,...
$123.50
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...
$36.00
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...
$119.99
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...
$66.99
Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898–1940 (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US...
$137.00
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the...
$132.99
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the...
$41.99
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the...
$46.99
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom. He draws on social and environmental history to connect them intimately to the...
$128.99
People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (Caribbean Studies Series)
$65.00
People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange (Caribbean Studies Series)
Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analyzing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, he traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue...
$65.00
Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication AssociationThe African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the...
$143.00
Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication AssociationThe African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the...
$45.50
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and...
$123.00
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and...
$32.00
Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
In this fascinating treatment of "party" life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties. Party/Politics reveals new dimensions to the way we think about the cultural and political sphere, both nationally and transnationally. The author...
$94.00
Pan–Africanism: Exploring the Contradictions: Politics, Identity and Development in Africa and the African Diaspora
What does it mean to be an African today? Starting from that question the author takes the reader on a fascinating intellectual journey into the realm of Pan-African thought and practice. Moving from Africa to North America to Europe, the...
$220.00
Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction
Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Frankie Y. Bailey identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the...
$123.50
Out of the Revolution
The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of...
$244.00
Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912
In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island's transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba's well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism...
$68.99