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Decolonizing the Classics eBook Series

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  • Colonial Slavery

    An Abridged Translation

    by Jacob Gorender ...
    Translated by Alejandro Reyes ...
    Series series Decolonizing the Classics
    Jacob Gorender's (1923–2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes's brilliant translation.Gorender argued that slave-holding societies produced an economic system sui generis, not fitting into any of the established societal categories offered by Karl Marx and Max Weber. As such, Gorender proposed a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Brazil - An Interpretation

    by Gilberto Freyre ...
    A series of lectures on the ethnic and social fusion that makes Brazil the country it is today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery in Brazil

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Camera in the Garden of Eden

    The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic

    by Kevin Coleman ...
    In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company’s power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries in which it operated, giving rise to the notion of company-dominated “banana republics.”In A ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Race in Cuba

    Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

    by Gary Prevost, Esteban Morales Domínguez, August Nimtz ...
    As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beyond Slavery

    The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Darién J. Davis ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    by Karen Y. Morrison ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conceiving Freedom

    Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

    by Camillia Cowling ...
    In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Seeds of Insurrection

    Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848

    by Manuel Barcia ...
    On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient slaves. Yet this makeshift parade never evolved into the violent rebellion the villagers expected. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD