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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
$67.50
Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of...
$67.50
Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
$132.00
Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of...
$132.00
American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
“Perhaps,” wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, “the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.” As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms...
$39.00
American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
“Perhaps,” wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, “the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.” As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms...
$120.00
"All the World Is Here!": The Black Presence at White City
The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. ""All the World Is Here!"" examines why...
$34.95
$28.00
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line
After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to race, why are we still conspiring to divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin color? Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement...
$29.99
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction
Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first book-length exploration of AfroSurreal fiction, argues that we have entered a new and exciting era of...
$212.50
Afro-Puerto Ricans in the Short Story: An Anthology
Contents: Victor C. Simpson: Introduction – Manuel A. Alonso: La Negrita y la Vaquita – Matías González García: La Gloria de don Ramiro – Alfredo Collado Martell: Un Corazón De Pura Sangre – Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: El Cuento del Baquiné...
$52.00
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous...
$95.49
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues...
$30.00
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues...
$126.50
Afro-Latin American Studies
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of...
$150.00
Afro-Latin American Studies
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of...
$48.00
Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction
Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of...
$152.00
Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online...
$134.99
Afro-Descendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas
Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an...
$45.60
Afro-Cuban Tales
As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to...
$22.49
Afrocuba: Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society that claims to have abolished it? How does the legacy of slavery and segregation live on in today’s Cuba? Essays, poetry, extracts from novels,...
$72.49
Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change
The central topic of this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of “Afrocentricity,” which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects; and looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and world view gives Africans a better understanding of how...
$21.95
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition
Confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against the author's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. Rendering a critique of some postmodern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations, this title contains engagements with views expressed by Mary...
$40.99
Afro Immigrants Politics Incorp: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit
This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in the United States?...
$159.99
Afro Immigrants Politics Incorp: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit
This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about American democracy. Does racism still complicate or limit the political integration patterns of racial minorities in the United States?...
$46.99
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary,...
$33.99
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary,...
$123.99
Afro-Asian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$36.00
African Folktales in the New World
"These essays . . . are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." ―Choice" . . . this is Bascom at his best. . . . an attractive and full-bodied book." ―FabulaThese essays, devoted...
$25.50
AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or...
$102.99
Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
$126.50
Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations
While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a...
$137.98
Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding African-American historian, has brought the range of his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experience in the...
$27.00