Social Science
Social Science
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
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A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
Shortlisted for the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationThe leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to...
$123.50
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 (African Studies, Series Number 115)
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert....
$133.99
History of Psychology in the Black Experience Perspectives: Then and Now
History of Psychology in the Black Experience Perspectives uniquely approaches the history of human psychology by weaving together the psychological elements of ancient Egyptians. The psychological contents of the medieval and contemporary sub-Saharan Africans and the psychological experiences of Diasporan Africans...
$74.00
Historic Black Nova Scotia
The history of Nova Scotia's black communities is a complex story of triumph and struggle, intertwined with the many stories of ancestors, destinies, and challenges. The knowledge and insight of veteran authors Bridglal Pachai and Henry Bishop provide welcome guidance...
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Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology
From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicenter of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured...
$138.00
Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age,...
$124.99
Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!
The book "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" touches on subjects too controversial for most authors to reveal to the people. This book will expose the truths that have been hidden by the powers that be in America. Since...
$48.99
The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s...
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Health Policies and Black Americans
Also published as: The Milbank quarterly, v.65, suppl.1, 1987, under the title: Currents of health policy impacts on Black Americans. Acidic paper; no index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or
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Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in...
$137.50
Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in...
$137.50
Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity
In Haunted Life, David Marriott examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. He compels readers to consider how media technologies are "haunted" by the phantom of racial slavery. Through examples...
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This...
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
$123.99
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This...
$123.99
Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved...
$35.00
Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
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Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines...
$85.00
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (Suny Series in African American Studies) (
Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.
$109.00
Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (Suny Series in African American Studies)
Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.
$45.50
Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of...
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Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of...
$149.99
Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the...
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Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature―not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization...
$162.00
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi,...
$129.99
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi,...
$36.00
Genocide?: Birth Control and the Black American
Examines incidents, studies, and reports purported to indicate a connection between American birth control patterns and racially motivated policies to control the size of the black population
$123.50
Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland
This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The...
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Gender and the Abjection of Blackness (SUNY Series in Gender Theory)
In Gender and the Abjection of Blackness, Sabine Broeck argues that gender studies as a mostly white field has taken insufficient account of Black contributions, and that more than being an ethnocentric limitation or blind spot, this has represented a structural...
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Futures of Black Radicalism
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history...
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