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Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and...
'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident...'
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
'We hold these truths to be self evident_' An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America delves into the philosophical, historical, socio/cultural and political evolution of racism and slavery in America. The premise of this work is that racism and slavery in America...
Cinderella Story
A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. Rolling asks, How do words and images-involving stories and paradigms, past and future, perceptions of beauty and ugliness-become flesh? How are they done and...
by Zora Neale Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
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by Zora Neale Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
"Maybe, now, we used-to-be black African folks can be of some help to our brothers and sisters who have always been white. You will take another look at us and say that we are still black and, ethnologically speaking, you will be right. But nationally and culturally, we are as white as the next...
Race in Another America
The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians...
Burdened By Race
Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity.
Black Rights/White Wrongs
The Critique of Racial Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and...
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research...
by Wendy Wilson-Fall
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar’s people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic...
Black Rebellion
Five Slave Revolts
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South...
by Louis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Louis Hughes was born into slavery in Virginia in 1832. Over the thirty years he was a slave he secretly learned to read and write, and then published this incredibly detailed autobiography about his experiences of slavery.
Theorizing Empowerment
Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist...
by Jo Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Race and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the understanding of music genres and preferences? What does...