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  • George Yancy

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Kimberley Ducey, Clevis Headley, Joe R. Feagin ...
    This collection gives George Yancy’s transformative work in social and political philosophy and the philosophy of race the critical attention it has long deserved. Contributors apply perspectives from disciplines including philosophy, sociology, education, communication, peace and conflict studies, religion, and psychology. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Black Men from behind the Veil

    Ontological Interrogations

    by Semassa Boko, Clevis Headley, Sterlin Mosley, Reiland Rabaka, Joseph Smith, A. Todd Franklin, Timothy J. Golden, William David Hart, John H. McClendon III, Aaron X. Smith, George Yancy1, Houston A. Baker, Jr.2, Tommy J. Curry3, Arnold L. Farr4, Floyd W. Hayes, III5, Linden F. Lewis6, Josiah Ulysses Young7 ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Haiti and the Americas

    Edited by Carla Calarge, Raphael Dalleo, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Clevis Headley ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Read more

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  • Why the Cocks Fight

    Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

    by Michele Wucker ...
    Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a ... Read more

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  • Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success

    by Keith C. Holmes ...
    Series series 2nd Endition
    Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success highlights inventors of color from over seventy countries and five continents. This book took over twenty years to research and documents black inventors from 1769 - 2011. It a must read for parents, students, teachers and librarians. It is most indepth study done on inventors of color to date. ... Read more

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  • Rainy Season

    Haiti-Then and Now

    by Amy Wilentz ...
    Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the ... Read more

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  • The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon

    Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804

    by Dr. Philippe R. Girard, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    A deeply researched and definitive account of the climactic battle at the end of the Haitian RevolutionAmong the many rebellions against European colonial empires, the Haitian Revolution against France is among the most dramatic and complex. Having begun in 1791 as France was in the throes of its own young revolution, the conflict reached its dramatic climax when Napoleon dispatched a heavily ... Read more

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  • The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

    by Eric Williams ...
    Series series World Social Change
    In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African ... Read more

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  • Sea of Storms

    A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

    by Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's ... Read more

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  • Our Caribbean Kin

    Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles

    by Alaí Reyes-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alaí Reyes ... Read more

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