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  • The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity

    Edited by Jemima Pierre, Jean Muteba Rahier ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
    What is race and how does it structure our contemporary world? This Handbook offers a groundbreaking exploration of these urgent questions, providing a critical, global perspective on the anthropology of race and ethnicity. Drawing together cutting-edge research across subdisciplines such as physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics, it emphasizes the key roles of ... Read more

    $131.19 USD

  • The Anthropology of White Supremacy

    A Reader

    Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, Junaid Rana ...
    An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites. Anthropology has been shaped by—and has helped to shape ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Predicament of Blackness

    Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

    by Jemima Pierre ...
    What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space—as a fixed historic source for the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures

    Edited by M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
    Series series Thinking Gender
    Feminist Geneaologies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures provides a feminist anaylsis of the questions of sexual and gender politics, economic and cultural marginality, and anti-racist and anti-colonial practices both in the "West" and in the "Third World." This collection, edited by Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, charts the underlying theoretical perspectives and organization ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    Edited by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Martins ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights as a language for human dignity is nowadays incontrovertible, the question of whether it can be used in a counter-hegemonic sense remains open. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology

    Edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli, Olaf Zenker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology is a ground-breaking collection of essays that provides an original and internationally framed conception of the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of law and anthropology. Each of the chapters in the Handbook provides a survey of the current state of scholarly debate and an argument about the future direction of research in this ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Critical Ethnic Studies

    A Reader

    by Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective ...
    Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory

    Edited by Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sandeep Bakshi, Flavia Rios, Agustin Lao-Montes, Jairo Fúnez-Flores ...
    The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary resource that expands the epistemological and geographical horizons of decolonial thought. This handbook prioritizes the Global South, fostering South-North and South-South inter-epistemic dialogues and situating decolonial thought in sites of struggle. It builds ondecolonial thought and praxis from Latin America and the ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • Deeply Rooted in the Present

    Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Race

    by Peter Wade ...
    Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in ... Read more

    $31.19 USD