Social Science
Social Science
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People (New Black Studies Series)
This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of...
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Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South...
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Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South...
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Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America
When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man," they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early...
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Essays on Race and Empire
This edition assembles the major essays on race and imperialism written by Nancy Cunard in the 1930s and 1940s. As a British expatriate living in France, and as a politically-engaged poet, editor, publisher, and journalist, Nancy Cunard devoted much of...
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The End of Apartheid (History Just Before You Were Born)
Few places have felt the weight of colonization and slavery the way South Africa has. The ruling powers of Dutch and British settlers set in place a legal system designed to keep the races separated and unequal. Readers will come...
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The End of Apartheid (History Just Before You Were Born)
Few places have felt the weight of colonization and slavery the way South Africa has. The ruling powers of Dutch and British settlers set in place a legal system designed to keep the races separated and unequal. Readers will come...
$39.57
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture 3-volume set
The field of African Diaspora studies is rapidly growing. Until now there was no single, authoritative source for information on this broad, complex discipline. Drawing on the work of over 300 scholars, this encyclopedia fills that void. Now the researcher,...
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Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom (Facts on File Library of American History)
When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person--a sailor--set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing...
$240.50