Social Science
Social Science
Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Cultur
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion...
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Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion...
$220.00
Psalms for Black Lives: Reflections for the Work of Liberation
In the summer of 2020, while composing a series of devotionals on the Psalms for their church, the Double Love Experience, authors Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes recognized that these ancient words spoke truth and inspiration not only to...
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All About Love: New Visions
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering....
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In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil (Anthropological Horizons)
In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson...
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In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil (Anthropological Horizons)
In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson...
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Imprensa negra no Brasil do século XIX (Portuguese Edition)
Ao longo do século XIX, indivíduos e grupos negros letrados criaram espaços na imprensa para tratar dos assuntos que consideravam importantes e expor suas ideias sobre os rumos do país. Experiências cotidianas e variadas de enfrentamento do racismo, a criação...
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of “Englishness” as white, masculine, and pure and “Americanness” as black, feminine, and impure. Brody’s readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and science fiction...
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture
Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of “Englishness” as white, masculine, and pure and “Americanness” as black, feminine, and impure. Brody’s readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and science fiction...
$128.99
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social DemographyHonorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological AssociationOver the last four decades, immigration from the Caribbean...
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Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean
Afro-Caribbean personalities coupled with trade unions and organizations provided the ideology and leadership to empower the working class and also hastened the end of colonialism in the Anglophone Caribbean.
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Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean
Afro-Caribbean personalities coupled with trade unions and organizations provided the ideology and leadership to empower the working class and also hastened the end of colonialism in the Anglophone Caribbean.
$68.99
The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America Download Plain Text version Despite the Enlightenment's promise of utopian belonging among all citizens, blacks and Jews were excluded from the life of...
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Identity Construction and (Mis) Perceptions on Being Black in South Africa: Unpacking Socio-Economic, Spatial, and Political Dimensions in the South Durban Basin
Identity Construction and (Mis) Perceptions on Being Black in South Africa: Unpacking Socio-Economic, Spatial, and Political Dimensions in the South Durban Basin presents the research findings of a two-year empirically based study on the politics of race, ethnicity, and identity in...
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Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these...
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Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these...
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Human Rights in the Americas (InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict) 1st Edition
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Human Rights in the Americas (InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict) 1st Edition
This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields. Taking 1492 as a point of departure, the text explores Eurocentric historiographies of human rights and offer a more complete understanding of the genealogy of the...
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How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work
The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter:Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians...
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How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics
In this book, Marcio Goldman provides an interpretation of a 'big' theme - the functioning of a modern political system - based on the ethnographic analysis of a 'small' one - the political involvement of a group of African-Brazilian people...
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How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces (First Edition)
How do people produce and reproduce identities? In How Americans Make Race, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges what is sometimes called the “narrative identity thesis”: the idea that people produce and reproduce identities as stories. Identities have greater staying power than...
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The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the...
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Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery
The Anglican Church established St. Matthew's Parish on the eastern side of Nassau to accommodate a population increase after British Loyalists migrated to the Bahamas in the 1780s. The parish had three separate cemeteries: the churchyard cemetery and Centre Burial...
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
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A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 (African Studies, Series Number 115)
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert....
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History of Psychology in the Black Experience Perspectives: Then and Now
History of Psychology in the Black Experience Perspectives uniquely approaches the history of human psychology by weaving together the psychological elements of ancient Egyptians. The psychological contents of the medieval and contemporary sub-Saharan Africans and the psychological experiences of Diasporan Africans...
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Historic Black Nova Scotia
The history of Nova Scotia's black communities is a complex story of triumph and struggle, intertwined with the many stories of ancestors, destinies, and challenges. The knowledge and insight of veteran authors Bridglal Pachai and Henry Bishop provide welcome guidance...
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Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology
From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicenter of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured...
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Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age,...
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Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!
The book "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" touches on subjects too controversial for most authors to reveal to the people. This book will expose the truths that have been hidden by the powers that be in America. Since...
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