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  • Between Two Worlds

    Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa

    by Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Glodel Mezilas, Patrick Delices, Moussa Traoré, Esther I. Rodríguez-Miranda, Tammie Jenkins, William Alexander0, Myriam Mompoint1, Paul C. Mocombe2 ...
    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Mocombe’s Kreyol Reading Room

    Òtograf Lang Kreyl Ayisyen

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Tiara S. Mocombe ...
    Mocombe’s Kreyol Reading Room: Òtograf Lang Kreyl Ayisyen highlights the grammar rules of Haitian Kreyol, as outlined by Akademi Kreyl Ayisyen (AKA), to be used as a teaching (pedagogical) tool in elementary and adult classes. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities

    Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition

    Edited by Celucien L. Joseph, Paul C. Mocombe ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of human nature and theories of knowledge in the Western social sciences and the humanities. As an anti ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender ...
    This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Jesus and the Streets

    The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Victoria Showunmi ...
    Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Positing ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism

    The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti

    by Paul C. Mocombe ...
    Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic, i.e., syncretism, materialism, communal living or social collectivism, democracy, individuality, cosmopolitanism, spirit of social justice, xenophilia, balance, harmony, and gentleness, gave rise, under the leadership ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Identity and Ideology in Haiti

    The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion

    by Paul C. Mocombe ...
    Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of Pétion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms – ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

    The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin interpret the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Oppositional Culture Theory

    by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin ...
    Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be in the world by choosing ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Counter-History of the Present

    Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Creolization of Theory

    by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah, Leo Ching, Barnor Hesse, Anne Donadey ...
    Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Language Policy

    by Bernard Spolsky ...
    Series series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Through looking at the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD