Social Science
Social Science
Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics
The six research projects that form the core of the Otros Saberes initiative bring together a diverse group of Afro-descendant and indigenous collaborations with academics. The focus of each research project is driven by a strategic priority in the life of the...
$45.00
Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand...
$37.00
The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States
The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white...
$162.50
The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950
This study of Boston's West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. Describing their experience among Boston's American-born blacks and in...
$33.99
Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
Africa’s modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century...
$123.50
Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora
Africa’s modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the nineteenth century...
$220.00
The Oppositional Culture Theory
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt...
$60.00
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$32.00
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$123.50
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the worldWhat exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be...
$30.00
On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value
In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race...
$110.50
On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value
In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race...
$37.00
On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes
First published in French in 1808 and translated into English two years later under the title An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of the Negroes, this book was a touchstone for nineteenth-century abolitionists in England and the United...
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On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography’s role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons “signify”? Nicole R....
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The Old Village and Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
''Meticulously researched and lucidly written, this valuable case study will be of interest not onlyto anthropologists but to all students of the African Diaspora to the Americas and the process ofacculturation among blacks in the new world.
$66.00
Old Roots in New Lands: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas
Old Roots in New Lands( Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas) <> Hardcover <> AnnM.Pescatello <> GreenwoodPress
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Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$138.00
Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$45.50
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and...
$46.99
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination...
$29.99
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination...
$125.00
Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa
There are two common ways of writing about Africa, says Célestin Monga. One way blames Africa’s ills on the continent’s history of exploitation and oppression. The other way blames Africans themselves for failing to rise above poisonous national prejudices and...
$49.00
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union―the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the...
$33.99
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler’s groundbreaking work, scholars...
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Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Refiguring American Music)
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...
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The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Critical Africana Studies)
The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its post-history (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism)....
$225.00
Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting...
$52.00
Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Black American and Diasporic Studies)
Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the...
$24.95
Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives)
More than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, water access remains a striking reminder of racial inequality in South Africa. This book compellingly argues that in the post-apartheid period inequality has not only been continuously reproduced but also legitimized.Michela...
$72.00