Social Science
Social Science
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of societyThanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet,...
$39.00
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of societyThanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet,...
$156.00
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$45.00
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises...
$70.00
Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self. When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito...
$97.50
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the...
$32.49
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the...
$123.99
Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context...
$137.99
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context...
$137.49
Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with musicAt a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured...
$14.00
Culture is Our Weapon: AfroReggae in the Favelas of Rio
Brazil is a conundrum; even as its culture enjoys an ever higher profile in the West, an undeclared, vicious and often ignored drug war is being fought on the streets of its cities' favelas (shanty towns). Culture is Our Weapon:...
$52.00
The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995
This book describes the impact of U.S. government civilization and education policies on a Native American family and its tribe from 1763 to 1995. While engaged in a personal quest for his family's roots in Choctaw tribal history, the author...
$61.00
Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica
Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system, drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork in rural Jamaica. It is...
$221.00
Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica
Cultural DNA builds on developments within indigenous Caribbean feminisms and gender studies as well as feminist anthropological currents to explore the nature of the rural Afro-Jamaican gender system, drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork in rural Jamaica. It...
$56.00
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural...
$37.00
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural...
$143.99
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
$71.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
This long-awaited revision of a classic work traces the unique development of business enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present.
$71.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
$51.00
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
This long-awaited revision of a classic work traces the unique development of business enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present.
$51.00
Encyclopedia of African American Business: Updated and Revised Edition
Nearly everyone is familiar with New York City's Wall Street, a financial center of the world, but much fewer individuals know about the black Wall Streets in Durham and Tulsa, where prominent examples of successful African American leaders emerged. Encyclopedia of...
$263.00
Black Star: African American Activism in the International Political Economy
This book describes how the first African American mass political organization was able to gain support from throughout the African diaspora to finance the Black Star Line, a black merchant marine that would form the basis of an enclave economy...
$50.99
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur
$29.99
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur
"Should I lower my price point? Give my new product away for free online? How do I compete when my goods, services, or business model might be duplicated?" In this candid, 21st-century-savvy guide, Dante Lee illustrates how passion can become...
$29.99
African Americans and Mass Media: A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing...
$124.00
Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship (Century Foundation Book)
This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy the influence of public policies, the persistence of urban poverty, economic...
$218.50
Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada
How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though...
$51.00
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora
"The 18 papers in this volume are original, clearly written, and of consistently high quality. Organized in four parts―'Comparative Diaspora Historiography,' 'Identity and Culture,' 'Domination and Resistance,' and 'Geo-Social History and the Atlantic World'―these essays complement each other in a...
$29.99
Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to...
$68.99
Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to...
$195.50
Crisis in the Community
African Caribbeans are 44% more likely to be sectioned, 29% more likely to be forcibly restrained, 50% more likely to be placed in seclusion, and make up 30% of in-patients on medium secure psychiatric wards. This is the stark reality...
$22.00
The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America) 1
The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in...
$48.00
The Cosby Cohort: Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)
The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in...
$139.00