Social Science
Social Science
Medical Anthropology and African American Health
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches―from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others, including the general public, to health care. This approach places...
$123.50
The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society...
$48.00
The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World
A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society...
$128.99
Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination
What is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought...
$85.00
Marxist Theory, Black/African Specificities, and Racism
This book deals with substantive issues that have the potential to enhance our understanding regarding how Marxist theory can be quite useful in interpreting Black specificities and the race paradigm. So far, Marxist theory has been excluded because it is...
$139.00
Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica
Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere.Located at the gateway to the New World in the...
$68.99
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and...
$180.00
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and...
$47.99
The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English Across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries (Studies in Caribbean Literature)
Caribbean literature is usually conceptualized in regional, thematic, and post-independence ideological terms. But in addition to Caribbean literature written in English, there is a large body of earlier English literature written about the Caribbean. This book analyzes the concept of...
$142.00
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging
When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, within China, where...
$210.50
Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources,...
$40.99
Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian...
$34.99
Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian...
$128.99
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
In 1964, Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is...
$69.90
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black presence in the sixteenth...
$29.95
The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered (Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora)
$64.99
The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered (Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora)
One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by scholars whose work has made important contributions to the field of Bahian studies over the...
$64.99
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law,...
$59.99
Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity
Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew JolivZtte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial...
$130.00
Los Animales En El Folklore Y La Magia de Cuba (Coleccion Del Chichereku) (Spanish Edition)
En forma de de diccionario con significado de los animales en la religión afrocubana y el folklore.
In dictionary form, the meanings of animals in Afro-Cuban religions and folklore are examined.
$24.95
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
$41.99
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
$120.00
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race...
$149.99
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race...
$41.00
Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road
What does it mean to cross half a continent without documents or rights? The self-told story of African migration.
$120.00
The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and...
$29.99
The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and...
$113.99
London Is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims...
$110.00
Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past
Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black...
$39.00
Listening to Images
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually...
$29.99
Listening to Images
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually...
$113.95