Social Science
Social Science
Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Santero, Palero and Abakua
$43.00
Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Santero, Palero and Abakua
A history of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Afro-Cuban artist and practitioner of sacred drumming, whose music has survived both political and personal upheaval. Through his experiences, it examines the interaction between social, political, economic and cultural forces and the individual's actions.
$43.00
Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool
The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of...
$54.00
Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the “African contribution” to Brazil’s culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of...
$50.00
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives
$131.25
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives
Winner of the 2016 NYASA Book Award presented by the New York African Studies AssociationWhen students are introduced to the study of diversity and social justice, it is usually from sociological and psychological perspectives. The scholars and activists featured in...
$131.25
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but...
$62.49
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but...
$159.99
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (Revised)
$39.00
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (Revised)
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable―one of the leading scholars of African American history―gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate...
$39.00
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable―one of the leading scholars of African American history―gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate...
$121.00
Disability and the Black Community
Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community!Disability and the Black Community addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethics groups by the black race in the United States. This unique book works...
$79.95
Dimensions of African and Other Diasporas
Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. This collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African, European and Asian diasporic formation.
$60.00
A Different Hunger
This collection of A. Sivanandan's writings looks at the history of black struggles against British racism from the 1940s to the uprisings of Brixton and Toxteth in the 1980s.
$43.00
Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa
At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and...
$84.50
Diasporic Africa: A Reader
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader...
$115.99
Diasporic Africa: A Reader
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader...
$36.00
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of societyThanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet,...
$39.00
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of societyThanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet,...
$156.00
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$45.00
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$70.00
Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self. When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito...
$97.50
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the...
$32.49
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the...
$123.99
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context...
$137.99
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context...
$137.49
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with musicAt a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured...
$14.00
Culture is Our Weapon: AfroReggae in the Favelas of Rio
Brazil is a conundrum; even as its culture enjoys an ever higher profile in the West, an undeclared, vicious and often ignored drug war is being fought on the streets of its cities' favelas (shanty towns). Culture is Our Weapon:...
$52.00
The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995
This book describes the impact of U.S. government civilization and education policies on a Native American family and its tribe from 1763 to 1995. While engaged in a personal quest for his family's roots in Choctaw tribal history, the author...
$61.00
Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica
Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system, drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork in rural Jamaica. It is...
$221.00
Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica
Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system, drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork in rural Jamaica. It...
$56.00
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural...
$37.00
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural...
$143.99