Social Science
Social Science
Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia
Throughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop “seemed so normal,” but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in general—and the Black working class in particular—is self-hating...
$37.99
Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia
Throughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop “seemed so normal,” but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in general—and the Black working class in particular—is self-hating...
$104.00
The Black Holocaust For Beginners
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to...
$16.99
Black Genders and Sexualities (Critical Black Studies)
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural...
$68.99
Black Genders and Sexualities (Critical Black Studies)
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural...
$68.99
Black Futures
“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What does...
$25.00
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the...
$35.99
Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the...
$134.99
Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events (The Multicultural History & Heroes Collection)
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and pride! The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the...
$39.95
Black Europe and the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions...
$36.99
Black Europe and the African Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions...
$143.99
Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States. But how will these "new blacks" behave politically in America? Using...
$57.99
$49.99
The Black Diaspora: Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa
The Black Diaspora tells the enthralling story of African-descended people outside Africa, spanning more than five centuries and a dozen countries of settlement, from Britain, Canada, and the United States to Haiti, Guyana, and Brazil.Ronald Segal's account begins in Africa itself,...
$33.00
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together...
$120.99
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together...
$45.95
Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy (Suny Series in African Politics and Society)
Black Consciousness in South Africa provides a new perspective on black politics in South Africa. It demonstrates and assesses critically the radical character and aspirations of African resistance to white minority rule.Robert Fatton analyzes the development and radicalization of South...
$118.99
Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy (Suny Series in African Politics and Society)
Black Consciousness in South Africa provides a new perspective on black politics in South Africa. It demonstrates and assesses critically the radical character and aspirations of African resistance to white minority rule.Robert Fatton analyzes the development and radicalization of South...
$42.49
Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions
For researchers seeking detailed information about the black diaspora in North America, this authoritative reference provides more than 300 years of black Canadian history, from the first migration of slaves, black loyalists, and Civil War refugees to the expansive movement...
$40.00
Black British Feminism: A Reader
Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in...
$57.99
Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil
Under a provision in the Brazilian constitution, rural black communities identified as the modern descendants of quilombos—runaway slave communities—are promised land rights as a form of reparations for the historic exclusion of blacks from land ownership. The quilombo provision has...
$96.00
Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil
Under a provision in the Brazilian constitution, rural black communities identified as the modern descendants of quilombos—runaway slave communities—are promised land rights as a form of reparations for the historic exclusion of blacks from land ownership. The quilombo provision has...
$30.99
Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture
Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contributions to ongoing dialogues surrounding posthuman blackness and Afro-transhumanism. The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of...
$127.00
Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as...
$35.99
Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as...
$134.99
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture
With the Ta-Nehisi Coates–authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016); Nate Parker’s cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel’s Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so...
$114.99
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture
With the Ta-Nehisi Coates–authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016); Nate Parker’s cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel’s Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so...
$41.00
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or...
$39.00
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and...
$123.50
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and...
$33.50