Social Science
Social Science
Futures of Black Radicalism
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history...
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From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution
Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, or racism....
$46.99
From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourismBased on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation...
$68.99
From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Susan Pennybacker positions race at the center of the...
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From Immigrants to Ethnic Minority: Making Black Community in Britain
While there is an extensive sociological literature concerning race relations, racial discrimination and the process of migration, this has tended to focus on snapshots at a given moment in time. There are few historical accounts of the development of black...
$221.00
From Fetish to Subject: Race, Modernism, and Primitivism, 1919-1935
Was modern primitivism complicit with the ideologies of colonialism, or was it a multivalent encounter with difference? Examining race and modernism through a wider and more historically contextualized study, Sweeney brings together a variety of published and new scholarship to...
$143.00
Frame By Frame : a Black Filmography (Vol. 1)
A reprint of the classic 1979 edition, containing listings of over 3000 film items with Black themes and subject matter from the period 1900–1977.For the past decade or so scholars have been looking at the role of Blacks in a...
$51.99
The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil...
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The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil...
$59.00
Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows...
$46.99
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in...
$32.00
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in...
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Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in...
$119.98
Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
In 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that...
$21.95
Separated
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." —Rachel Maddow The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America’s systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | American Book Award...
$34.50
Enough
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis,...
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Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)national Interest (SUNY series in African American Studies)
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Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)national Interest (SUNY series in African American Studies)
Examines African American influence on United States foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.With African Americans largely absent from the debate over post-Cold War foreign policy, this book gives voice to ways in which our foreign policy has fallen short...
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First Word: Black Scholars, Thinkers, Warriors; Knowledge, Wisdom, Mental Liberation
Interviews with 13 of today's most influential black thinkers reflect wisdom, wit, joy, and frustration as they speak candidly on issues of education, relationships, the origin of civilization, human rights, and a host of other topics.
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is...
$26.00
Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema
Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. By closely examining films such as Sapphire(1959),...
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Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema
Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. By closely examining films such as Sapphire(1959),...
$208.00
Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South (New Directions In Southern History)
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Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South (New Directions In Southern History)
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for...
$48.00
The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas Volume 12
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The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas Volume 12
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance,...
$71.50
Fading Out Black and White: Racial Ambiguity in American Culture
What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the...
$62.00
Fading Out Black and White: Racial Ambiguity in American Culture
What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the...
$182.00
Fear of Black Consciousness
In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and...
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Faces In Revolution: The Psychological Effects Of Violence
One of South Africa’s most serious problems is the large number of youths in the black townships who have been exposed to an incredible depth and complexity of trauma. Not only have they lived through severe poverty, the deterioration of...
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Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as...
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Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders Paperback
From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as...
$42.00