Social Science
Social Science
Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South...
$108.00
Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the mid-nineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South...
$33.99
Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America
When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man," they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early...
$51.99
Essays on Race and Empire
This edition assembles the major essays on race and imperialism written by Nancy Cunard in the 1930s and 1940s. As a British expatriate living in France, and as a politically-engaged poet, editor, publisher, and journalist, Nancy Cunard devoted much of...
$37.49
The End of Apartheid (History Just Before You Were Born)
Few places have felt the weight of colonization and slavery the way South Africa has. The ruling powers of Dutch and British settlers set in place a legal system designed to keep the races separated and unequal. Readers will come...
$16.00
The End of Apartheid (History Just Before You Were Born)
Few places have felt the weight of colonization and slavery the way South Africa has. The ruling powers of Dutch and British settlers set in place a legal system designed to keep the races separated and unequal. Readers will come...
$39.57
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture 3-volume set
The field of African Diaspora studies is rapidly growing. Until now there was no single, authoritative source for information on this broad, complex discipline. Drawing on the work of over 300 scholars, this encyclopedia fills that void. Now the researcher,...
$417.00
Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom (Facts on File Library of American History)
When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person--a sailor--set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing...
$240.50
Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture: 2 volumes
Blacks have played a significant part in European civilization since ancient times. This encyclopedia illuminates blacks in European history, literature, and popular culture. It emphasizes the considerable scope of black influence in, and contributions to, European culture. The first blacks...
$259.95
Encyclopedia Of African American Culture And History: The Black Experience In The Americas (Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History) (Volumes 1-6)
Users looking for authoritative and comprehensive information about black history, figures and accomplishments now have a defining and current reference to address their needs. The second edition of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History is a much-needed expansion of the 1996...
$2,176.99
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is...
$35.00
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is...
$135.00
Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery
This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important, but underexplored, topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the era of the slave trade (c. 1600-1850). Brazil received more enslaved Africans...
$55.00
Ebony Kinship: Africa, Africans, and the Afro-American
Deals with the physical and spiritual aspects of back-to-Africa movements and their counter movements
$123.50
East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization
In this book, Mwenda Ntarangwi analyzes how young hip hop artists in the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania showcase the opportunities and challenges brought by the globalization of music. Combining local popular music traditions with American and...
$28.99
An Earth-colored Sea: 'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World
Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power – Portugal – has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the...
$162.00
Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Santero, Palero and Abakua
$43.00
Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Santero, Palero and Abakua
A history of Felipe Garcia Villamil, Afro-Cuban artist and practitioner of sacred drumming, whose music has survived both political and personal upheaval. Through his experiences, it examines the interaction between social, political, economic and cultural forces and the individual's actions.
$43.00
Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool
The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of...
$54.00
Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the “African contribution” to Brazil’s culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of...
$50.00
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives
$131.25
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives
Winner of the 2016 NYASA Book Award presented by the New York African Studies AssociationWhen students are introduced to the study of diversity and social justice, it is usually from sociological and psychological perspectives. The scholars and activists featured in...
$131.25
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but...
$62.49
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but...
$159.99
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (Revised)
$39.00
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (Revised)
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable―one of the leading scholars of African American history―gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate...
$39.00
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable―one of the leading scholars of African American history―gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate...
$121.00
Disability and the Black Community
Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community!Disability and the Black Community addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethics groups by the black race in the United States. This unique book works...
$79.95
Dimensions of African and Other Diasporas
Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. This collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African, European and Asian diasporic formation.
$60.00
A Different Hunger
This collection of A. Sivanandan's writings looks at the history of black struggles against British racism from the 1940s to the uprisings of Brixton and Toxteth in the 1980s.
$43.00
Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa
At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and...
$84.50
Diasporic Africa: A Reader
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader...
$115.99
Diasporic Africa: A Reader
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader...
$36.00