Social Science
Social Science
Nacionalismos Caribeños: Marcus Garvey y Pedro Albizu Campos (Spanish Edition)
This book examines nationalism in the Caribbean through two important political and social leaders of the region in the first half of the twentieth century: Marcus Garvey from Jamaica and Pedro Albizu Campos from Puerto Rico
$35.00
México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
$46.99
México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
$118.75
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern...
$65.00
The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa
A detailed collection of information about the playing and making of the instruments of indigenous peoples' in South Africa.Percival Kirby was a musician and ethnomusicologist and for many years head of the music department at the University of the Witwatersrand,...
$42.00
Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials
This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism. Multiracialism is often heralded as a breakthrough in racial reconciliation; some even go so far as to posit that the U.S. will become so racially...
$127.00
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions...
$143.99
Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and...
$55.00
Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations
Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue...
$35.00
More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa
"Among the many merits of this book is the fact that Greenbaum convincingly places the experience of this small community within the widest context. In so doing, she dexterously reveals the dialectical interplay among local, state, national, and international developments....
$32.99
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion―dubbed "banking the unbanked"―which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals...
$43.50
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion―dubbed "banking the unbanked"―which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals...
$144.00
Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the...
$83.99
Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the...
$149.99
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the...
$40.50
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (Black Internationalism)
In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies...
$32.00
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (Black Internationalism)
In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies...
$143.00
Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks
This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in...
$220.00
Miseria de la razón: Racismo, etnocentrismo y nazismo: legados del pasado aún en las ciencias sociales de Occidente- Desde una perspectiva caribeña
Este trabajo se centra en la impertinencia existente en las ciencias sociales, asumiendo que es en ésta donde se juega la posibilidad de superar aquellas conclusiones teóricas inaceptables que son precisamente las que determinan la existencia y el sentido de...
$107.00
Migration and Mortality in Africa and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
These papers explore the history of the tropical regions of the Atlantic basin, sometimes focused on the Caribbean, sometimes on Africa, but always with a comparative dimension. The Atlantic basin is central to most of these comparisons, but they are...
$143.00
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How...
$136.50
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How...
$37.50
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