Social Science
Social Science
Slavery in Brazil
Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil...
$96.00
Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship
Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History)Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History)Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the...
$65.00
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
$68.99
Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters
This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with...
$68.99
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
$175.00
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$175.00
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
$162.50
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.
$162.50
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen edited by author May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz. It is the first published book by Afro-Germans. It is the first written use...
$35.00
Shifting to Fit: The Politics of Black and White Identity in School Leadership
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University of Idaho, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, Virginia Commonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse University...
$114.99
Shifting to Fit: The Politics of Black and White Identity in School Leadership
A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University of Idaho, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, Virginia Commonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse University...
$66.75
Shades of Black
One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades of Black. In a...
$14.50
Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$51.99
Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
$129.99
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power is a political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. Greg Thomas interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. By connecting sex and...
$31.00
Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian...
$134.99
Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian...
$34.75
Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery
Savage Constructions composes a critical examination of the popular assumption that violence is an essential quality of certain ethnic or racial populations. Wendy Hamblet challenges the supposition, all too common in the West, that darker-skinned peoples are inherently violent. To challenge...
$71.50
Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery
Savage Constructions composes a critical examination of the popular assumption that violence is an essential quality of certain ethnic or racial populations. Wendy Hamblet challenges the supposition, all too common in the West, that darker-skinned peoples are inherently violent. To challenge...
$163.99
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African...
$84.50
Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean
Sacred Possessions is an unprecedented collection of thirteen comparative and interdisciplinary essays exploring the cross-cultural dynamics of African-based religious systems in the Caribbean. The contributors analyze the nature and liturgies of Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, Quimbois, and Gaga as they form one...
$46.75
The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro
For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a...
$90.00
The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contempo)
Cobley presents five interconnected case studies of previously neglected aspects of recreation and social welfare policy in South Africa. He charts their historical development and poses the critical question: In shaping recreation and social welfare policy, by what rules did...
$99.95
Richmond, Virginia Uncovered: The Records of Slave and Free Blacks listed in the City Sergeant Jail Register, 1841-1846
Richmond is located in the heartland of Virginia on the free flowing water of the James River. The James brought much pain, for it was by this river that the slave boats arrived and unloaded their imprisoned passengers in the...
$28.50
Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902–1997), a black woman known as “Reyita,” recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita’s voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story—as told...
$29.99
Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each of these...
$26.00
Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels,...
$39.50
Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels,...
$143.99
Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity
This Book gives an overview and genealogy of Revivalism. It explores the role of the Revival Iconography in the building of a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and by extension African Jamaicans The Revival network was traced through a...
$50.00
Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy
An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy’s contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.In the more than twenty years since the publication of his book The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy has become a leading Afro-European intellectual whose work in the cultural...
$118.75
RETHINKING SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: HOMICIDES IN POST-CIVIL WAR LOUISIANA, 1
By analyzing nearly 5,000 homicides over an eighteen year period, Gilles Vandal provides a clear picture of the level of physical violence in Louisiana after the Civil War. He combines statistics with more traditional sources to draw conclusions about the...
$46.00
Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
How can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming shows how people make sense of slavery in a nation where talking about...
$47.00