Social Science
Social Science
Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture―which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean―and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso,...
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The Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto: Learning to Live With Racism
The Afro-Caribbean community of Toronto has grown dramatically over the past few decades. Increasingly active as a political and cultural force in the life of the city, the group remains relatively unknown to many of Toronto's other communities and institutions....
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C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction
This study of C. L. R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as theory. This sustained analysis of his major published works places them in the context of his less well-known writings and...
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Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop
When and why did 'white people' start calling themselves 'white'? When and why did 'white slavery' become a paradox, and then a euphemism for prostitution? To answer such questions, Taylor begins with the auction of a 'white' slave in the...
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Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco
In her heart-pounding and courageous debut, Dr. Isabella Alexander-Nathani uncovers an unseen side of our global migrant and refugee crisis.Burning at Europe's Borders invites readers inside the lives of the world's largest population of migrants and refugees--the hundreds of thousands who...
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Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa?Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England...
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Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa?Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England...
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Branches of Asanteism
Branches of Asanteism explores the epistemologies and research methodologies that have sprung from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante’s treatises on Afrocentricity. The book identifies and analyzes thirteen such epistemologies and methodologies while defining and explicating the various “branches” of Asante’s idea...
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Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa
In the mid-1950s, as many developing nations sought independence from colonial rule, black women in the American South and in South Africa launched parallel campaigns to end racial injustice within their respective communities. Just as the dignified obstinacy of Mrs....
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The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance
The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class...
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The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance
The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class...
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Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book Award Winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award Border Crossing «Brothas» examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal...
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Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book Award Winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award Border Crossing «Brothas» examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal...
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Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern
Blacks in the Dutch WorldThe Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern SocietyAllison BlakelyExamination of the development of racial attitudes and color prejudice."In Blacks in the Dutch World Blakely provides scholars with a valuable record―in word and image―of the complex...
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Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
This volume examines the political, cultural, and social role of the population with African background in the shaping of national identity in various Latin American countries. Slavery survived well into the nineteenth century in countries such as Brazil and Cuba;...
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Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place
Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet...
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Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil
Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America....
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Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil
Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America....
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Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
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Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities.
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Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
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Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities.
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Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations Vol. 2
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Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations Vol. 2
If we are to understand the meanings of "blackness" in the African diaspora and elsewhere, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emerged from Euro-American racism and black liberation over the past five centuries. So argue the editors of...
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Blackness in Latin America & the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations
Now in its third edition, Understanding Third World Politics is a comprehensive, critical introduction to key political theories and controversies in international development for students in Third World politics, political and economic development, and comparative government courses. B. C. Smith reviews the...
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Blackness in Britain (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity)
Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and rich history of research on Blackness and Black...
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Blackness in Britain (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity)
Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary absence and omission from academic curricula in Britain. There is a long and rich history of research on Blackness and Black...
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Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of "blackness" and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts--from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.
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#blacklove: The Intricacies and Intimacies of Romantic Love in Black Relationships
This edited volume qualifies black love on the basis of black identity. Much of what is experienced of blackness as an identity arises out of a juxtaposition to other races and identities, particularly whiteness. The contributors in this volume resist...
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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the teatro bufo, and of related forms of music,...
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Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the scandalization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African...
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Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how...
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Black Trans Feminism
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing...
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