Social Science
Social Science
Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!
Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together in one volume, with an introduction by Cornel West. “The time is ripe to return to [Wright’s] vision and voice in the face of our...
$25.99
Black Popular Culture
A Village Voice Best Book "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality"
$19.95
Black Performance Theory
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering...
$33.99
Black Performance Theory
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering...
$123.99
Black Passports: Travel Memoirs As a Tool for Youth Empowerment
In this resource guide for fostering youth empowerment, Stephanie Y. Evans offers creative commentary on two hundred autobiographies that contain African American travel memoirs of places around the world. The narratives are by such well-known figures as Frederick Douglass, W....
$46.99
Black Passports: Travel Memoirs As a Tool for Youth Empowerment
In this resource guide for fostering youth empowerment, Stephanie Y. Evans offers creative commentary on two hundred autobiographies that contain African American travel memoirs of places around the world. The narratives are by such well-known figures as Frederick Douglass, W....
$118.99
Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the...
$143.99
Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the...
$38.99
Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and...
$102.49
Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity
Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and...
$36.00
Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Whilst scholarship has increasingly moved to consider mixedness and the experiences of mixed-race people, there has been a notable lack of attention to the specific experiences of mixed-race men....
$50.99
Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Whilst scholarship has increasingly moved to consider mixedness and the experiences of mixed-race people, there has been a notable lack of attention to the specific experiences of mixed-race men....
$133.99
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism
Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering...
$56.99
Black Men, Invisibility and Crime: Towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance
Past studies have suggested that offenders desist from crime due to a range of factors, such as familial pressures, faith based interventions or financial incentives. To date, little has been written about the relationship between desistance and racialization. This book...
$212.50
Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter: A Multidisciplinary Primer
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the debate between proponents of Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter has been reignited. For proponents of Black Lives Matter, the slogan All Lives Matter is not a...
$152.00
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the most brilliant and successful studies in...
$58.99
Black Journalists, White Media
Black Journalists, White Media is based on the experience of journalists of African-Caribbean and Asian descent. The author interviewed one hundred black journalists working in all sectors of the British media, including newspapers, television and radio. The book links the...
$36.99
Black Issues in Social Work and Social Care
Over several decades, anti-oppressive practice and anti-discriminatory perspectives have become an integral part of social work. Responding to an urgent need for an up-to-date text that addresses recent developments, this book charts the impact of social changes and new literature shaping...
$50.99
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century (FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies))
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualized within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as definitive, then examined and theorized, a...
$180.00
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century
From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents...
$33.99
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century
From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents...
$143.99
Black in Latin America
The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge―or deny―their African past12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in...
$33.99
Black in Latin America
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThe history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge―or deny―their African past12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage....
$102.99
Black Immigrants in the United States
In the United States, ‘immigrant’ is a complicated category. It is used interchangeably with ‘refugee’ and it is, most of the time, linked to South America, especially Latina/os. Black Immigrants in the United States is arguing that immigrants are not refugees and, whether coming...
$145.99
Black Immigrants in the United States
In the United States, ‘immigrant’ is a complicated category. It is used interchangeably with ‘refugee’ and it is, most of the time, linked to South America, especially Latina/os. Black Immigrants in the United States is arguing that immigrants are not refugees and, whether coming...
$51.99
Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black
The first wave of Black immigrants arrived in North America during the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from the Caribbean. An opportunity was missed however, in documenting their everyday experience from a social science perspective: what did it mean for...
$57.00
Black Immigrants in North America: Essays on Race, Immigration, Identity, Language, Hip-Hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Becoming Black
The first wave of Black immigrants arrived in North America during the 1960s and 1970s, coming originally from the Caribbean. An opportunity was missed, however, in documenting their everyday experience from a social science perspective: what did it mean for...
$201.50
The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by...
$199.99
The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by...
$48.99
Black Images in the Comics
Endlessly browsable illustrated journey through comics' history of radical portrayals both good and bad, now in softcover. This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the...
$19.99