{"title":"Social Studies","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-greeks-a-global-history","title":"The Greeks: A Global History","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek speakers produced a series of civilizations that were rooted in southeastern Europe but again and again ranged widely across the globe.  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Greeks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Beaton traces this history from the Bronze Age Mycenaeans who built powerful fortresses at home and strong trade routes abroad, to the dramatic Eurasian conquests of Alexander the Great, to the pious Byzantines who sought to export Christianity worldwide, to today’s Greek diaspora, which flourishes on five continents. The product of decades of research, this is the story of the Greeks and their global impact told as never before.  \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Roderick Beaton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43008849805488,"sku":"9781541603646","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/greeks.jpg?v=1702326062"},{"product_id":"dirtbag-essays","title":"Dirtbag: Essays","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmber 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, Democratic Socialists of America), just before the first major movement for economic justice of the millennium, Occupy Wall Street. Of course, Occupy went bust, then Bernie Sanders went boom, and she threw herself into the campaign with everything she had. Frost has been one of the foremost evangelists of labor and socialist politics ever since, as a writer, activist, former staff and lifetime member of DSA, and cohost of the wildly popular \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChapo Trap House\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e podcast.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDirtbag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the much-anticipated debut from one of the most engaging and insightful writers of her generation. This book is more than a political memoir; it is a chapter in the story of the only movement that has a chance to reshape our world into something better. It captures an electric time of thrilling triumphs, stupid decisions, friendships and rivalries new and old, struggle, joy, setbacks, and heartbreak, all with magnetic prose, remarkable candor, and unflappable humor.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThroughout it all, Frost burned the candle at both ends, relentlessly campaigning for socialism and the labor movement, from the American Midwest to the British rust belt, and rallying the troops with her brothers-in-arms as a self-described propagandist for the glorious cause of the workers movement (and somehow, always finding moments for plenty of reckless adventuring). The time was a brutal calamity of work and play, with all of the late nights, hard fights, and joyous camaraderie powered by the hope and the faith that maybe, somehow, this time, socialism could actually win.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Amber A'Lee Frost","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43008922419376,"sku":"9781250269621","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/dirt.jpg?v=1702330809"},{"product_id":"american-refugees","title":"American Refugees","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"loadMore-wrapper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"js-heightGetter\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"userContent\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA net exodus of Americans from blue to red states has been in progress for several years now\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis is largely a southbound movement, and perhaps some migrants are “running from the cold up in New England,” as the song goes. But mostly they are leaving states that are too far gone into woke socialism to recover anytime soon—notably California, New York, and Illinois—in favor of states with more conservative governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe conventional wisdom, or fear, among red state locals is that these newcomers are closet liberals whose growing numbers will serve to replicate the same dysfunction they left behind. Roger Simon argues that the reverse may be more accurate: blue-to-red migrants tend to be serious constitutional conservatives, and they might be the calvary that rescues the red states from their own problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith the possible exception of Florida, the red states too are in trouble. Having been one-party states themselves for a long time, like California, they have also been corrupted, but in a different way. Their political leaders have become disconnected from the conservative values of their constituents. Migrants from blue states, however, are likely to be highly invested in saving the red states they move into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmerican Refugees\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how a culture clash precipitated a great blue state exodus, and what it means for the rest of America. Focusing particularly on Tennessee as a paradigm, Simon contends that only the red states can preserve the constitutional republic envisioned by the Founders. Only they can save America for our children and grandchildren. 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Now that we have scratched the surface on courageous conversations about race, many are wondering: what is the next step towards healing and justice? Lies About Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters is designed for anyone who wants to examine their own biases and behaviors with a deeper critical lens in order to take action, make change, and engage positively in the fight for racial equality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this honest and welcoming book, diversity and inclusion expert, professor, and award-winning speaker Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must embark on a massive undertaking to re-educate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful, and too often deadly, to the Black community. 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Beyond combatting these harmful lies, Dr. Dibinga also provides readers with powerful insights on our racial vocabulary, reflective hands-on exercises that will allow readers to confront and change their own biases, and an honest discussion about how to move beyond misplaced shame and use privilege to serve others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing personal surveys alongside real-life interviews with those who have been affected by racial biases first-hand, this open and thoughtful guide will lead readers on a path to understanding, action, and change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Omekongo Dibinga, Michael Eric Dyson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059685392560,"sku":"‎ B0BWLMNBVH","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/71c4dyOtoWL._SY342.jpg?v=1704233075"},{"product_id":"thin-description-ethnography-and-the-african-hebrew-israelites-of-jerusalem","title":"Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (hardcover)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0674049667\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ugwr1r-mbzaou-n2bfvo-ac9owe\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 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. 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The various bodies of knowledge, the philosophical framework, methodological procedures, and theoretical underpinnings of the discipline have never been clearly delineated from an African-centered perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-interactable-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-label-expand\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" expander-index=\"0\"\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"readInteractable\" name=\"read-less\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-icon collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nathaniel Norment Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067136639152,"sku":"9781433161292","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/413oK2g1_yL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1704568132"},{"product_id":"africana-studies-a-disciplinary-quest-for-both-theory-and-method","title":"Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0786402784\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"e6shq2-xh1gmk-lvqol2-w4l7xw\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKnown variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, the academic study of the African diaspora as a holistic discipline is a relatively new phenomenon. University programs have been created with reference to a disciplinary matrix, retarding the development of appropriate theory and methods throughout Africana studies. Fifteen leaders in the field of Africana studies provide the conceptual framework for establishing the field as a mature discipline. The focus is on four basic areas: administration and organizational structure; disciplinary matrix; Africana womanism; and cultural aesthetics. The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-interactable-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-label-expand\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" expander-index=\"0\"\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"readInteractable\" name=\"read-less\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-icon collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"James Conyers Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43069904552112,"sku":"9780786423040","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/31-tjmRrtxL._SY342.jpg?v=1704739733"},{"product_id":"another-world-is-possible-spiritualities-and-religions-of-global-darker-peoples","title":"Another World is Possible: Spiritualities and Religions of Global Darker Peoples","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Another World is Possible' examines the many peoples who have mobilized religion and spirituality to forge identity. Some claim direct links to indigenous spiritual practices; others have appropriated externally introduced religions, modifying these with indigenous perspectives and practices. The voices of Black people from around the world are presented in essays ranging from the Indian subcontinent, Japan and Australia to Africa, the UK and the USA. From creation narratives to trickster heroes, from the role of spirituality in HIV positive South Africa to its place in mental health and among the poor, spirituality is shown to be essential to the survival of individuals and communities.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Dwight N. 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Claire Alexander rejects the common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict, or as the focus of a problem; she offers a fresh exploration of the strengths and ambiguities of black youth representations as they are imagined and lived through, focusing in particular on community, \"class\", social life, and masculinity.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoung black men have been typecast as hostile and culturally confused, alienated from their parents and from society; as \"folk devils\" (the stock images of the black mugger, the Rastafarian drug dealer, the rioter) creating problems for society in general. To get a truer view, Dr Alexander spent twelve months as \"one of the boys\" in a group of young black Londoners; the resulting highly personal, in-depth, and very readable study counters the usual image of ethnic identity as fixed and immutable.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on contemporary debates about culture and ethnicity, this book offers the close observation and informed analysis needed to bring to life theories of black cultural identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-interactable-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-label-expand\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" expander-index=\"0\"\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"readInteractable\" name=\"read-less\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-icon collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Claire E. 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An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating a viable identity in intellectual discourse. Egypt, not Greece, is the cradle of spirituality, poetics, and metaphysics\/philosophy. This book shows how recovering originary Nilotic philosophy is one of the few truly viable ways of rethinking philosophy and literary theory in the wake of the nihilist perspective with which postmodernism and deconstruction have left us. Besides making Africa the epicentre of the future of theory, the book’s uniqueness is that it is, arguably, the first attempt to argue the literary implications\/applications of the historiographical discourse that is ‘Black’ Egyptology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-interactable-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-label-expand\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" expander-index=\"0\"\u003e\u003cbutton class=\"readInteractable\" name=\"read-less\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-icon collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"A. Lassissi Odjo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43079914913968,"sku":"9780415974561","price":57.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/51TPkzxXjeL._SY342.jpg?v=1705073303"},{"product_id":"slaverys-capitalism-a-new-history-of-american-economic-development-early-american-studies","title":"Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pInfoTabCExpander-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0812224175\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"wy8nab-6nqmm1-5h41ru-l3jf9\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_desktopTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlavery's Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContributors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. 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Using the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage―studying with a local master at a historical point of origin―the author examines how non-Brazilian capoeiristas learn their art and claim legitimacy while navigating the complexities of wealth disparity, racial discrimination, and cultural appropriation.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Lauren Miller Griffith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43190735012016,"sku":"9781785330636","price":162.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/81-ii7k_mOL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1708541414"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-liberty-african-american-internationalism-in-the-nineteenth-century-atlantic-world-race-in-the-atlantic-world-1700-1900-ser","title":"In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Search of Liberty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black abolitionist campaigns in Europe.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy placing these diverse stories in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ronald Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43190940369072,"sku":"9780820360089","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/81msu2yhmKL._SY342.jpg?v=1708543620"},{"product_id":"the-latin-american-identity-and-the-african-diaspora-ethnogenesis-in-context","title":"The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is extensive research found both in books and articles on the various topics of Afro Latinism\/Afro Hispanism that is directed mainly at the non-native. Nonetheless, one still notices either cultural confusion or political reluctance to accept the identity of Blackness that the Latin American native lives with--for himself or for others- -on a daily basis. For the average Cuban, Venezuelan, Peruvian, and so forth, along with their Latin counterparts, Blackness in racial terms surfaces as a matter of degrees of African-relatedness that is then counterbalanced by degrees of European and\/or Amerindian genomic components. It is only in non-native cultures that one encounters such disparate comparisons as \"statistics for Hispanics versus statistics for Blacks.\" But is it not possible to find persons that are ethnoracially Black included in the demographics for Hispanics? The overarching aim of this book, then, is to determine whether it is possible to perceive a constituency within the Latin American whole who is also an integral part of the African Diaspora. It examines the concept of African-relatedness within the totality of the Latin American sphere--not just in one isolated country or region--through a careful process of literary analysis. By exploring the works of Latin American novelists, poets, and lyricists, this study shows how they creatively expose their most intimate feelings on ethnic Blackness through a semiotic reliance on the inner voice. At the same time, the reader becomes a witness to the writers' associations with a sense of Africanness as it artistically affects them and their communities in their formulations of self-identity. Unique to this volume is the scholarly presentation of the presence of a group of people in Ghana, West Africa, who owe their raisond'être as a clan to their ancestral origins in Brazil. Having been accepted and received by an endemic tribe of what was called the Gold Coast at an historical moment in the nineteenth century, a community of escaped slaves and deported ex-slaves from Brazilian bondage regrouped as an ethnic whole. The reality of their existence gives new meaning to the term African Diaspora. To this day, their descendants identify themselves as displaced Latin Americans in Africa. Undoubtedly, both this surprising feature of Latin Americans returning to the African continent and the book as a whole will stimulate further discussion on the issue of who is Black and who is Hispanic as well as generate continued, in-depth research on the relationship between two continents and their shared genotypology. 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His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEscobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. 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