Social Science
Social Science
Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts,...
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Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil
The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts,...
$144.00
Learning to (Re)member the Things We’ve Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching
Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and research, given the historical and...
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Learning to (Re)member the Things We’ve Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching
Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and research, given the historical and...
$60.00
Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a “boy crisis” in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female...
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The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context
There is extensive research found both in books and articles on the various topics of Afro Latinism/Afro Hispanism that is directed mainly at the non-native. Nonetheless, one still notices either cultural confusion or political reluctance to accept the identity of...
$143.99
Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature...
$220.00
Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico
Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a previously untold story of how individuals in contemporary urban Mexico...
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La Suisse coloniale: Les représentations de l’Afrique et des Africains en Suisse au temps des colonies (1880-1939) (French Edition)
L’analyse de la nature et de la diffusion du discours colonial éclaire l’état d’esprit qui régnait en Suisse au sujet des Africains. De multiples sources sont sollicitées dans cette étude pour illustrer la force de l’imprégnation d’une mentalité coloniale au...
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La Brigada: Spain (1936-1939)
The poems in ""La are"" are about the impact of Spain on La Brigada, the American unit that fought in the Spanish Civil War. As Cranston Knight states, the poems are about ""those who struggled in a time vortex to...
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Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival (Interp Culture New Millennium)
With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of...
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Keep On Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop
The marriage of music and social change didn’t originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In Keep On Pushing,...
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Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that...
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Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that...
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iVenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks,...
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iVenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
Promoting the revolutionary socialist project of equality and dignity for all, the slogan ¡Venceremos! (We shall overcome!) appears throughout Cuba, everywhere from newspapers to school murals to nightclubs. Yet the accomplishments of the Cuban state are belied by the marginalization of blacks,...
$128.99
Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York
This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.
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"Is That Your Mom?": Voices of Cross Racially Raised Adults of The African Diaspora
While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20-30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross-racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White...
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"Is That Your Mom?": Voices of Cross Racially Raised Adults of The African Diaspora
While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20-30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross-racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White...
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Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations....
$230.00
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives: Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations....
$90.99
Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New...
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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...
$63.00
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...
$101.99
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...
$39.00
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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