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  • Brassroots Democracy

    Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

    by Benjamin Barson ...
    Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in ... Read more

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  • The Cargo Rebellion

    Those Who Chose Freedom

    by Jason Chang, Benjamin Barson, Alexi Dudden ...
    The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise.The laborers learned that Bryson’s claimed destination of San Francisco was a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands ... Read more

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  • Different Drummers

    Rhythm and Race in the Americas

    by Martin Munro ...
    Series Book 14 - Music of the African Diaspora
    Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Anticolonial Eruptions

    Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance

    by Geo Maher ...
    Series Book 15 - American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
    This incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial revolts and slave rebellions have often been described by those in power as “eruptions”—volcanic shocks ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Freedom's Seekers

    Essays on Comparative Emancipation

    by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Keywords for Southern Studies

    by Erich Nunn, Leigh Anne Duck, Melanie Benson Taylor, Deborah Cohn, Martyn Bone, Coleman Hutchinson, Houston A. Baker Jr., Steven Knepper, John T. Matthews, Michael Bibler, Sylvia Shin-Huey Chong, Briallen Hopper, Claudia Milian, Wanda Rushing, Anna Brickhouse, Eric Lott, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Jayna Brown, Matthew Guterl, Ted Atkinson, Natalie J. Ring, Suzanne Jones, Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Thomas F. Haddox, Eric G. Anderson, Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

    by chelsea berry, robin derby, sharla fett, vanessa northington gamble, mary hicks, rana hogarth, Tim Lockley, elisa a. mitchell, deirdre cooper owens, Leslie Schwalm, brandi m. waters ...
    CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Black Music

    The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

    by Sam Floyd, Melanie Zeck, Guthrie Ramsey ...
    Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Future of Black Studies

    by Abdul Alkalimat ...
    'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce DaviesThe marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pushing discipline, grown out of struggle and community action. Here, Abdul Alkalimat, one of the founders of ... Read more

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  • Slavery's Metropolis

    Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions

    by Rashauna Johnson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
    New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Caliban and the Yankees

    Trinidad and the United States Occupation

    by Harvey R. Neptune ...
    In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island’s history.The U.S. military occupation between 1941 and 1947 came at the same time that Trinidadian nationalist ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Black Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Roderick McDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD