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Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast by Case Watkins 9781108746236
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $30.02Behind the social and environmental destruction of modern palm oil production lies a long and complex history of landscapes, cultures, and economies linking Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic... -
More Than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and Musicians by Irene V. Jackson Brown 9780313245541
Booksplease Price: $66.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorckson /f Irene /i V. /r ed.Book InformationISBN 9780313245541Format HardbackPage Count 281Imprint Praeger... -
Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th Anniversary Edition by A. Robert Lee 9781433179532
RRP: $113.39Booksplease Price: $100.22Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a... -
Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future: Forms of Knowledge in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora Isis Barra Costa 9780231212625
Booksplease Price: $125.84Over the centuries, from the transatlantic slave trade to voluntary mass migrations through the digital era, African cultural practices have taken root and transformed in the Americas. Even though... -
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin by Anna von Rath 9781800790063
RRP: $76.63Booksplease Price: $71.74Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively,... -
Baking Buddies by Shiane Salabie 9781398253124
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.82J.C. is craving cupcakes and so is Pop-Pop! But when baby Maya won't go down for her nap, J.C. and Pop-Pop have to get creative. Can they handle baking and babysitting at the same time? Life in... -
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by John T. Maddox IV
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $64.47Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black... -
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone by William H. Bridges
Booksplease Price: $57.74Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese... -
Babalawo, Santeria's High Priests: Fathers of the Secrets in Afro-Cuban IFA by Frank Baba Eyiogbe 9780738739618
RRP: $22.58Booksplease Price: $17.71Hidden within the mysterious Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, also known as Lucumi, there is a deep body of secrets and rituals called Ifa, practised by priests whose title, babalawo, means Father of... -
Prophesy Deliverance! 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity by Cornell West 9780664265656
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $24.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664265656Author Cornell WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Westminster John Knox... -
Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 2: Afro-American Idioms by Dominique-Rene de Lerma 9780313231445
Booksplease Price: $99.08Product information not available.About the AuthorLerma /f Dominique-ReneBook InformationISBN 9780313231445Format HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing... -
The Afro-American Short Story: A Comprehensive, Annotated Index with Selected Commentaries by Preston M. Yancy 9780313243554
Booksplease Price: $73.10This book provides both a comprehensive cross-reference to modern Afro-American short stories published from 1950-1982 and an analysis and commentary on modern short fiction. Over 850 stories written... -
Afro-American Religious Music: A Bibliography and a Catalogue of Gospel Music by Irene V. Jackson Brown 9780313205606
Booksplease Price: $92.30Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313205606Author Irene V. Jackson BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature by Anne Margaret Castro 9780813943459
Booksplease Price: $41.15From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines... -
You and Your Hair: The Ultimate Healthy Hair Masterclass for Afro Textured Hair by Sarah Roberts 9781913674083
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913674083Author Sarah RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Conscious Dreams... -
Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Choco by Sandro Sessarego 9781108724777
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $32.30Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical... -
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity by Montre Aza Missouri 9781137454171
Booksplease Price: $62.44Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author... -
The Five Blessings of Ifá: Reclaiming Black Futures Through Afro-Indigenous Spirituality Gabrielle Felder 9798889841043
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889841043Author Gabrielle FelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S... -
Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy by Kia Lilly Caldwell 9780252082474
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the... -
Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Choco by Sandro Sessarego 9781108485814
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $127.12Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical... -
The Mind Possessed: The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an Afro-Brazilian Religious Tradition by Emma E. A. Cohen 9780195323351
Booksplease Price: $65.96The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of different psychological systems are involved in the construction and transmission of notions of extranatural... -
Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival by Jean Muteba Rahier 9780252037511
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political... -
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore by Alan Dundes 9780878054787
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the... -
Afro-Jewish Encounters: From Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and Beyond by William F. S. Miles 9781558765825
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $29.61A Muslim curator and archivist who preserves in his native Timbuktu the memory of its rabbi. An evangelical Kenyan who is amazed to meet a living ""Israelite."" Indian Ocean... -
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity by Vijay Prashad 9780807050118
Booksplease Price: $28.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050118Author Vijay PrashadFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
A Biohistory of 19th-Century Afro-Americans: The Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery by Lesley M.Rankin- Hill 9780897894357
Booksplease Price: $98.70The First African Baptists Church (FABC) remains were accidentally discovered and eventually excavated during the 1980s in Philadelphia. The history and artifacts of the church and cemetery, active... -
Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism by Jürgen E Grandt 9780814256374
Booksplease Price: $36.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256374Author Jürgen E GrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ohio State University... -
There and Back Again: Afro-Eurasian Exchange in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Periods Marie Nicole Pareja 9781803278056
Booksplease Price: $47.02The earliest contacts between the Aegean and the Indus were once thought to begin in the sixth century BCE, and yet there is now growing evidence of much earlier, indirect connections that extend... -
Boricua, Morena Black and Brown A Celebration of Afro-Indigenous Unity Through Music by Editions Canaan 9781637527443
RRP: $21.81Booksplease Price: $21.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637527443Author Editions CanaanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Editions CanaanPublisher... -
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 by William L. Andrews
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L... -
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement by Tiffany N. Florvil 9780252085413
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and... -
A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Emily Suzanne Clark 9781469645650
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $41.05In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from... -
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868 by Caryn Cosse Bell 9780807130261
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $49.48With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city, along with their white allies, seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of... -
Step it Down: Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage by Bessie Jones 9780820309606
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $33.01Growing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field work and child tending, entertaining her young companions with chants and riddles or joining them for a rousing... -
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature by Anne Margaret Castro 9780813943442
Booksplease Price: $71.14From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines... -
Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica by Anthony Russell Jerry 9780813069661
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $71.62An up-close view of the movement to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural categoryThrough historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward... -
Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel by Marcus Rediker 9780807012550
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012550Author Marcus RedikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dende Coast by Case Watkins 9781108478823
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $96.66Behind the social and environmental destruction of modern palm oil production lies a long and complex history of landscapes, cultures, and economies linking Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic... -
Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry Gonzalez by Abdul Alkalimat 9781936117642
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936117642Author Abdul AlkalimatFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Library Juice PressPublisher... -
Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence Patrice D. Douglass 9781503630819
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $107.91In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural...