Social Science
Social Science
The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s...
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Health Policies and Black Americans
Also published as: The Milbank quarterly, v.65, suppl.1, 1987, under the title: Currents of health policy impacts on Black Americans. Acidic paper; no index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or
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Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in...
$137.50
Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in...
$137.50
Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples...
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This...
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This...
$123.99
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved...
$35.00
Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
$45.50
Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
$85.00
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (Suny Series in African American Studies) (
Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.
$109.00
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (Suny Series in African American Studies)
Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.
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Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of...
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Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of...
$149.99
Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the...
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Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature―not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization...
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The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi,...
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The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi,...
$36.00
Genocide?: Birth Control and the Black American
Examines incidents, studies, and reports purported to indicate a connection between American birth control patterns and racially motivated policies to control the size of the black population
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Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland
This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The...
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Gender and the Abjection of Blackness (SUNY Series in Gender Theory)
In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
$127.50
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