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“oneka labennett”

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  • Global Guyana

    Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond

    by Oneka LaBennett ...
    Shortlisted, 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, NonfictionExposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of GuyanaPreviously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $19.99 USD

  • She’s Mad Real

    Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn

    by Oneka LaBennett ...
    Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents’ consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, Laura Pulido ...
    Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

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  • Asian American History

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    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
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    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

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  • Ethno-erotic Economies

    Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

    by George Paul Meiu ...
    Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Democracy in Malaysia

    The Need for a Vibrant Public Sphere

    by Christopher Chong ...
    Series series The Bible & the Ballot
    What is democracy? For many of us, it simply involves having periodic elections to decide which political party forms the next government. Yet, democracy is more than just elections. It involves the existence of a space which allows for people to freely debate on public issues and government policies as well as present alternative ideas without the fear of repercussions. If the health of a ... Read more

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  • Union by Law

    Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism

    by Michael W. McCann, George I. Lovell ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    "A pioneering subaltern history of immigrant workers and their relationship to law and legal institutions in the 20th century." — The Law & Society ReviewStarting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Mobile Secrets

    Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

    by Julie Soleil Archambault ...
    Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism to democratization to service delivery, ushering in socio-economic development.With Mobile ... Read more

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  • Rainforest Warriors

    Human Rights on Trial

    by Richard Price ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe.The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the ... Read more

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