Social Science
Social Science
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
New York Times Best Seller Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
$149.50
Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid
'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of...
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World's Great Men of Color, Volume I
The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most noteworthy Black personalities in world history and their significance....
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The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in...
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with...
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Woodwind Music of Black Composers
The preponderance of early Black composers wrote choral music and even the most outstanding among them did not compose works for woodwinds. However, the later half of the twentieth century has witnessed a rise in compositions for woodwinds, both for...
$114.00
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
First published in 1926, Drusilla Dunjee Houston (a self-taught historian), describes the origin of civilization and establishes links among the ancient Black populations in Arabia, Persia, Babylonia, and India. In each case she concludes that the ancient Blacks who inhabited...
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Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora
Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality
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Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition
In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmié offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and...
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Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition
In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmié offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and...
$143.99
"Winds Can Wake up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader
Eric Walrond (1898-1966), a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement, is a seminal writer of Black diasporic life, but much of his work is not readily available. This new anthology brings together a broad sampling of...
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Why Race Matters in South Africa
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. It shows in detail how the continuing strength of the white establishment forces the leaders...
$81.25
White Talk, Black Talk: Inter-racial Friendship and Communication amongst Adolescents
This book studies the relations between black and white adolescents in an urban environment (South London); the processes by which racism is relayed within adolescent communities, and the strategies which subvert or encourage them. More specifically Hewitt examines the sociolinguistic...
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
A comparative history of race relations in the U.S. and South Africa seeks to explain the different paths each nation followed
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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany)
Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time....
$103.99
White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism
A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present.From the arrival...
$31.99
When We Say Black Lives Matter
In a powerful, poetic missive, award-winning author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke celebrates the meaning behind the words Black Lives Matter.Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,we’re saying Black people are wonderful-strong.That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,and that history’s...
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When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama
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When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama
Despite its long history of encounters with colonialism, slavery, and neocolonialism, Panama continues to be an under-researched site of African Diaspora identity, culture, and performance. To address this void, Renée Alexander Craft examines an Afro-Latin Carnival performance tradition called “Congo”...
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When Africa Awakes
Hubert Henry Harrison's When Africa Awakes is an important collection of essays and articles written by one of America's great, but seldom noted intellectuals. The collection, originally published in 1920, provides valuable insight on the PanAfrican world of Harrison's time and sheds...
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What if Blacks Did Not Exist?
A historical and political analysis of the contributions made by Africans and African Americans.
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The West Indians of Costa Rica: Race, Class, and the Integration of an Ethnic Minority
Harpelle focuses on Caribbean migrants and their adaptation to life in a Hispanic society, particularly in Limón, where cultures and economies often clashed. Dealing with such issues as Garveyism, Afro-Christian religious beliefs, and class divisions within the West Indian community,...
$143.00
Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays...
$60.00
Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays...
$221.00
Weis(s)heiten im postkolonialen Deutschland: Das Konzept des "critical whiteness" am Beispiel der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung von Menschen ... and Postcolonial Encounters) (German Edition)
Diese Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem Konzept des Kritischen Weißseins als Teil der postkolonialen Theorie und Diskursanalyse. Sie enthält, neben einem einleitenden historischen und theoretischen Teil, eine umfassende empirische Befragung von über 200 Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft und Weißen Deutschen, die in Köln und...
$105.00
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World
This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. We Are Who We Say We Are provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting...
$45.50
We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority...
$24.99
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the...
$62.50
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the...
$212.50
Voices That Reason: Theoretical Parables
Voices that Reason is a path-breaking work. The author has charted the thoroughfares that speed the thought of many black South Africans towards specific expectations, grievances and actions. The present work constitutes an important and thought-provoking culmination of a generation's...
$43.75