Social Science
Social Science
African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World
This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during...
$150.00
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the...
$121.99
The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion (Religion/Culture/Critique)
This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
$68.99
The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion (Religion/Culture/Critique)
This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions, African Christianities, African/American forms of Islam, the religions of African Americans, Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
$68.99
The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin (San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy)
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in approach, African Diaspora and Autobiographics locates the dialogic and symbiotic connection between diverse autobiographical accounts of writers in the African diaspora. Beginning with an analysis of the abolitionist narratives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ex-slaves, Olaudah Equiano and...
$64.99
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and...
$120.99
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and...
$36.99
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities,...
$135.00
African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation
Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership "in crisis," this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities,...
$60.00
African American Women in the News: Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on...
$195.99
African American Women in the News
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on...
$57.99
African American Voices: African American Health
This book inaugurates a series dedicated to the health issues that aff ect distinct communities. Here, prominent health educators explore the pressing cultural and health needs of African Americans. Discussions on child abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness, access to health...
$68.99
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke (African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora)
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and...
$112.99
Advice to the Players
Greeted by unanimous acclaim when first produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Shorts Festival in 1984, and again as the Heideman Award-winner at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in 1985, this play was published in Literary Cavalcade magazine...
$18.99
Addicted to White The Oppressed in League with the Oppressor: A Shame-Based Alliance
How do you end oppression? Announcing a new and proven self-help strategy, Addicted to White by author Jerome E. Fox, Ph.D., that reveals the first step is for the oppressed to break their addiction to the values of the oppressor. Dr. Fox,...
$31.99
Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (hardcover)
The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in...
$99.00
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale’s most popular courses of all time How does the brain—a three-pound wrinkly mass—give rise to intelligence and...
$21.99
American Refugees
A net exodus of Americans from blue to red states has been in progress for several years now. This is largely a southbound movement, and perhaps some migrants are “running from the cold up in New England,” as the song goes....
$29.99
Dirtbag: Essays
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it.Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out,...
$28.00
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Publisher : Random House; Later prt. edition (September 7, 2010)
Language : English
Hardcover : 640 pages
ISBN-10 : 0679444327
ISBN-13 : 978-0679444329
$38.00
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Publisher : Oxford University Press (September 1, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0190096845
ISBN-13 : 978-0190096847
$27.95
An Unplanned Life: A Memoir
Publisher : The New Press (December 13, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1620977575
ISBN-13 : 978-1620977576
$28.99
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Publisher : Harper Perennial; Illustrated edition (June 23, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062966723
ISBN-13 : 978-0062966728
$16.99
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Publisher : Hirmer Publishers (October 22, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 200 pages
ISBN-10 : 3777435546
ISBN-13 : 978-3777435541
$39.95
Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Publisher : Knopf (March 28, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0525657010
ISBN-13 : 978-0525657019
$30.00
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
Publisher : Amistad (July 12, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063072440
ISBN-13 : 978-0063072442
$27.99
My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
Publisher : Harper (October 11, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063135396
ISBN-13 : 978-0063135390
$27.99
Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Every Day
Publisher : Dafina; Illustrated edition (September 24, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1496722205
ISBN-13 : 978-1496722201
$15.95
Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Publisher : Beacon Press (January 12, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807033200
ISBN-13 : 978-0807033203
$29.95
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Publisher : Random House; Reprint edition (August 4, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 0593230256
ISBN-13 : 978-0593230251
$32.00