Social Science
Social Science
The African-German Experience: Critical Essays
A collection of critical and theoretical essays that seek to take an in-depth look at the socio-political and historical roots of the African-German presence in today's Germany. The essays examine the African Germans and otherness, with vivid descriptions of personal...
$109.49
Africana Theory, Policy, and Leadership (Africana Studies)
Africana Theory, Policy, and Leadership is an eclectic work that examines Africana issues from multiple angles, including literature, ethnography, gender, aesthetics, and diversity. The contributors to this volume add unique and insightful works to the collection of research and writing documenting...
$65.99
Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline....
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African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora (One World Archaeology) (Volume 48)
$212.50
African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora (One World Archaeology) (Volume 48)
Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and...
$212.50
African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora (One World Archaeology) (Volume 48)
$62.99
African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora (One World Archaeology) (Volume 48)
Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and...
$62.99
The African Presence in Santo Domingo
Throughout its long and often tumultuous history, “La Hispanola” has taken on various cultural identities to meet the expectations―and especially the demands―of those who governed it. The island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti saw its first great shift...
$19.95
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this one-volume translation of the major sections of C. A. Diop's two books, Nations negres et culture and Anteriorite des civilizations negres, which have profoundly...
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African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors...
$137.99
African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors...
$137.99
The African in Latin America (Borzoi books on Latin America)
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975, this volume is directed toward students of history, sociology and minority studies who wish to gain a fuller understanding of the experience of Africans in the New World and of the contributions...
$64.99
African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
$57.50
African Images (Global Issues)
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
$195.50
African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
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African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures
This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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