Social Science
Social Science
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
$71.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
This long-awaited revision of a classic work traces the unique development of business enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present.
$71.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
$51.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
This long-awaited revision of a classic work traces the unique development of business enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present.
$51.00
Encyclopedia of African American Business: Updated and Revised Edition
Nearly everyone is familiar with New York City's Wall Street, a financial center of the world, but much fewer individuals know about the black Wall Streets in Durham and Tulsa, where prominent examples of successful African American leaders emerged. Encyclopedia of...
$263.00
Black Star: African American Activism in the International Political Economy
This book describes how the first African American mass political organization was able to gain support from throughout the African diaspora to finance the Black Star Line, a black merchant marine that would form the basis of an enclave economy...
$50.99
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur
$29.99
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur
"Should I lower my price point? Give my new product away for free online? How do I compete when my goods, services, or business model might be duplicated?" In this candid, 21st-century-savvy guide, Dante Lee illustrates how passion can become...
$29.99
African Americans and Mass Media: A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing...
$124.00
Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship (Century Foundation Book)
This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy the influence of public policies, the persistence of urban poverty, economic...
$218.50
Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada
How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though...
$51.00
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora
"The 18 papers in this volume are original, clearly written, and of consistently high quality. Organized in four parts―'Comparative Diaspora Historiography,' 'Identity and Culture,' 'Domination and Resistance,' and 'Geo-Social History and the Atlantic World'―these essays complement each other in a...
$29.99
Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to...
$68.99
Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to...
$195.50
Crisis in the Community
African Caribbeans are 44% more likely to be sectioned, 29% more likely to be forcibly restrained, 50% more likely to be placed in seclusion, and make up 30% of in-patients on medium secure psychiatric wards. This is the stark reality...
$22.00
The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America) 1
The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in...
$48.00
The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)
The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in...
$139.00
The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking...
$36.99
The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking...
$113.99
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used...
$65.99
Contemporary Quotations in Black
Containing over 1,000 quotations by noted African Americans and black African men and women, from Spike Lee to Terry McMillan, from Colin Powell to Shaquille O'Neal, from Nelson Mandela to U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, this selection of contemporary quotations...
$83.95
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 21)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community (Contemporary Black Biography, 1)
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$299.00
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from 2 to 4 pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entries are divided by subheads for quick scanning. Sections cover: Portrait (as available) Date and...
$331.99
Constructing Race: Youth, Identity, and Popular Culture in South Africa
As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of...
$42.00
Constructing Race: Youth, Identity, and Popular Culture in South Africa
As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of...
$118.75
Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book PrizeIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate...
$36.99
Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book PrizeIn 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate...
$113.99
Connecting Histories (Anthropology, Economy and Society)
First published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study and literature on subjects that were previously seen as the...
$65.49
Conceptual Aphasia in Black
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of...
$127.99