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I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives by Colin Grant 9781529918366
RRP: $14.18$10.02A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience.***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: $48.96$38.62The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society by Philippe-Richard Marius
RRP: $45.09$41.03When Philippe-Richard Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state... -
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
RRP: $16.76$11.73Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its... -
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas by Shannon Speed
RRP: $28.37$24.24Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico-from... -
Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights by Lara Montesinos Coleman 9781478025566
RRP: $30.95$26.33In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial... -
The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta 9780520344327
RRP: $50.31$38.93How a constellation of Latin American artists explored the body, power, and emancipation-and expanded the meanings of feminist art. In The Political Body, art historian Andrea Giunta explores gender and power in the work of Latin American artists from... -
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran
$37.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258699Author Vivian Nun HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador by Janis B. Nuckolls 9781793616210
$39.93In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and... -
Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives by Cécile Accilien 9781683403999
RRP: $36.06$25.85Approaching Haiti's history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest... -
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
RRP: $33.53$28.43Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award,... -
Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Faith Smith
RRP: $29.66$25.28In Strolling in the Ruins Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between... -
Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities by Samantha Nogueira Joyce
RRP: $94.17$85.29In Afro-Brazilians in Mass Media: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change. Nogueira... -
Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil by Laurie Denyer Willis 9780520394797
RRP: $32.25$24.74Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's suburbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork and attuned to... -
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis 9781906011529
RRP: $16.76$11.09In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.Book... -
Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster by Jossianna Arroyo
RRP: $36.11$30.52In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the... -
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela by Moises Lino e Silva
RRP: $28.38$27.37A mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to... -
Get Involved!: Stories of Bahamian Civil Society by Kim Williams-Pulfer 9781978834446
$42.12Philanthropy is commonly depicted as a universal practice and is either valued for supporting community transformation or critiqued for limiting social justice. However, dominant definitions and even popular connotations tend to privilege wealthy Western... -
Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia by John Soluri 9781469675718
RRP: $126.42$102.77Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and... -
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene L. Daut 9781469674742
RRP: $126.42$102.77The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first... -
Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South by Sarah McNamara 9781469668154
RRP: $126.42$102.77When we think about the origins of Cuban immigration to the United States, we often imagine the anti-Communist exiles who fled the regime of Fidel Castro and settled in South Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. But before Miami became Havana USA, a wave... -
Communities of the Soul: A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico by Jose E. Igartua 9780228008392
RRP: $110.94$86.31Religion is fundamental to contemporary Puerto Rican society. From the cosmology of the Indigenous Taino, to the wide range of Judeo-Christian churches and sects, to the practitioners of spiritism, Afro-Caribbean religions, and witchcraft, religious... -
Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?: The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch'orti' Indigeneity by Brent E Metz
$120.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422616Author Brent E MetzFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g -
Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms by Sherrie L. Baver
$49.25Filtered through the lens of the North American and European media, the Caribbean appears to be a series of idyllic landscapes-sanctuaries designed for sailing, diving, and basking in the sun on endless white sandy beaches. Conservation literature paints... -
The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia by Gwen Burnyeat 9780226821627
RRP: $36.12$35.33A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace. Colombia's 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian... -
The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert 9781469671109
RRP: $45.09$43.09This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken... -
The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile by Miguel Perez
RRP: $36.11$30.52In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity). From 2011 to 2015, anthropologist... -
An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness by Vivaldi Jean-Marie 9780231209779
RRP: $32.25$24.74Rastafari is an Afrocentric social and religious movement that emerged among Afro-Jamaican communities in the 1930s and has many adherents in the Caribbean and worldwide today. This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it... -
Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power by Marzia Milazzo
RRP: $48.96$46.62A study of anti-Blackness and white supremacy across four continents demonstrates that colorblindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology, but a constitutive technology of racism In Colorblind Tools, Marzia Milazzo offers a transnational... -
Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba by Elizabeth B. Schwall 9781469662978
RRP: $45.09$37.13Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance... -
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by Carlos Ulises Decena
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as... -
......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient by Aimé Césaire 9781478030645
RRP: $32.24$26.94Available to readers for the first time, Aimé Césaire’s three-act drama . . . . . . And the Dogs Were Silent—written during the Vichy regime in Martinique in 1943 and lost until 2008—dramatizes the Haitian Revolution and the rise and fall of Toussaint... -
Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities by Gina M. Pérez 9781479823918
RRP: $33.53$30.01Explores ways faith communities offer protection and services for Latina/o communities The New Sanctuary Movement is a network of faith-based organizations committed to offering safe haven to those in danger, often in churches, often outside the law, and... -
Assimilation: An Alternative History by Catherine S. Ramírez 9780520300712
RRP: $30.96$26.29For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media... -
An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana by Preity R. Kumar 9781978819047
RRP: $33.53$30.01An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana tells a new history of queer women in postcolonial Guyana. While the country has experienced a rise in queer activism, especially toward human rights efforts, members of the Guyanese queer... -
Get Involved!: Stories of Bahamian Civil Society by Kim Williams-Pulfer 9781978834453
$154.80Philanthropy is commonly depicted as a universal practice and is either valued for supporting community transformation or critiqued for limiting social justice. However, dominant definitions and even popular connotations tend to privilege wealthy Western... -
Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities by Gina M. Pérez 9781479823901
$105.28Explores ways faith communities offer protection and services for Latina/o communities The New Sanctuary Movement is a network of faith-based organizations committed to offering safe haven to those in danger, often in churches, often outside the law, and... -
Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis by Anderson Bean 9781793640864
RRP: $38.70$34.42Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State:... -
Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean: Gender, Policy, and Society by Ann Marie Bissessar 9781793642851
RRP: $99.33$91.67Throughout the world, policy makers argue that they develop and implement policies to benefit all members of their society. Marginalized Groups in the Caribbean argues that the policies introduced by several governments in the Caribbean lead to the... -
Reading José Martí from the Margins by Miguel De La Torre 9781538190678
RRP: $94.17$85.29Reading José Martí from the Margins explores the construction of Cuban homophobia, racism, sexism, sinophobia and ethnic discrimination which continues unabetted today on both sides of the Florida Straits. The apotheosis of Martí and the falsification of...