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Old Roots in New Lands: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas
Old Roots in New Lands( Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Black Experiences in the Americas) <> Hardcover <> AnnM.Pescatello <> GreenwoodPress
$123.50
Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$138.00
Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19)
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as...
$45.50
North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and...
$46.99
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination...
$29.99
None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life
It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination...
$125.00
Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa
There are two common ways of writing about Africa, says Célestin Monga. One way blames Africa’s ills on the continent’s history of exploitation and oppression. The other way blames Africans themselves for failing to rise above poisonous national prejudices and...
$49.00
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union―the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. The Oxford Union regularly welcomed heads of state and stars of screen and served as the...
$33.99
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler’s groundbreaking work, scholars...
$33.00
Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Refiguring American Music)
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways...
$33.50
The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Critical Africana Studies)
The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its post-history (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism)....
$225.00
Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting...
$52.00
Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Black American and Diasporic Studies)
Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the...
$24.95
Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives)
More than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, water access remains a striking reminder of racial inequality in South Africa. This book compellingly argues that in the post-apartheid period inequality has not only been continuously reproduced but also legitimized.Michela...
$72.00
Nacionalismos Caribeños: Marcus Garvey y Pedro Albizu Campos (Spanish Edition)
This book examines nationalism in the Caribbean through two important political and social leaders of the region in the first half of the twentieth century: Marcus Garvey from Jamaica and Pedro Albizu Campos from Puerto Rico
$35.00
México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
$46.99
México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-mexican Women (Suny: Genders in the Global South)
Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore SocietyWinner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize...
$118.75
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern...
$65.00
The Musical Instruments of the Indigenous People of South Africa
A detailed collection of information about the playing and making of the instruments of indigenous peoples' in South Africa.Percival Kirby was a musician and ethnomusicologist and for many years head of the music department at the University of the Witwatersrand,...
$42.00
Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials
This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism. Multiracialism is often heralded as a breakthrough in racial reconciliation; some even go so far as to posit that the U.S. will become so racially...
$127.00
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions...
$143.99
Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and...
$55.00
Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations
Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue...
$35.00
More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa
"Among the many merits of this book is the fact that Greenbaum convincingly places the experience of this small community within the widest context. In so doing, she dexterously reveals the dialectical interplay among local, state, national, and international developments....
$32.99
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion―dubbed "banking the unbanked"―which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals...
$43.50
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion―dubbed "banking the unbanked"―which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals...
$144.00
Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the...
$83.99
Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the...
$149.99
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the...
$40.50