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Beyond Coloniality - Citizenship And Freedom In The Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

by Aaron Kamugisha

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 <P>Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. <I>Beyond Coloniality</I> is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.</P>
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Comrades - A Local History Of The Black Panther Party

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 <DIV><B>Essays about the original Black Panther Party’s local chapters in seven American cities that seek "to move beyond the usual media stereotypes . . . Recommended" (<I>Choice</I>).</B><br/><br/>The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late sixties and early seventies, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of nonviolence, and its headline-catching, gun-toting militancy. Important on the national scene and highly visible on college campuses, the Panthers also worked at building grassroots support for local black political and economic power.<br/><br/>Although there have been many books about the Black Panthers, none has looked at the organization and its work at the local level. This book goes beyond Oakland and Chicago examines the work and actions of seven local initiatives in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. These local organizations are revealed as committed to programs of community activism that focused on problems of social, political, and economic justice.</DIV>
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Legacy Of The Lash - Race And Corporal Punishment In The Brazilian Navy And The Atlantic World

by Zachary R. Morgan

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 <DIV><B>A history of corporal punishment in the Brazilian navy and the four-day mutiny that took Rio hostage and put an end to the violent practice.</B><br/><br/><I>Legacy of the Lash </I>is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes under which they struggled, the book is an examination of the four-day Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash) of November 1910, during which nearly half of Rio de Janeiro’s enlisted men rebelled against the use of corporal punishment in the navy. These men seized four new, powerful warships, turned their guns on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s capital city, and held its population hostage until the government abolished the use of the lash as a means of military discipline. Although the revolt succeeded, the men involved paid dearly for their actions. This event provides a clear lens through which to examine racial identity, violence, masculinity, citizenship, modernity, and the construction of the Brazilian nation.<br/><br/><B>"Offering new insights into the spectacular sailors’ revolt of 1910, Zachary R. Morgan treats the "deep structure" of Brazilian naval discipline, one based primarily on flogging. Slavery was only abolished in 1888, and the mutineers, largely of African descent, saw flogging as an intolerable holdover from the slave era. Morgan also shows the incompatibility of the old labor regime and modern naval technology. Trained on the new battleships in the English shipyards where they were built, Brazilian sailors increasingly viewed themselves as citizens in uniform." —Joseph L. Love, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</B><br/><br/><B>"<I>Legacy of the Lash</I> is a stellar contribution to the growing global scholarship on mutiny and maritime radicalism. Zachary R. Morgan brings back to vibrant life the history-making powers of Brazil’s motley crews in the early twentieth century." —Marcus Rediker, author of <I>The Slave Ship: A Human History</I></B></DIV>
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Freedom From Liberation - Slavery, Sentiment, And Literature In Cuba

by Gerard Laurence Aching

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 <DIV><B>"Delves into the life and work of Juan Francisco Manzano, the enslaved Cuban poet and author of Spanish America’s only known slave narrative . . . Valuable." —<I>Choice</I></B><br/><br/>By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave’s foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano’s autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano’s text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba’s Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain.</DIV>
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Race And The Literary Encounter - Black Literature From James Weldon Johnson To Percival Everett

by Lesley Larkin

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 <DIV><P>What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison''s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ''universal'' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy.</P></DIV>
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Gold Coast Diasporas - Identity, Culture, And Power

by Walter C. Rucker

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 These weapons included obeah powders, charms, and potions; the evolution of "peasant" consciousness and the ennoblement of common people; increasingly aggressive displays of masculinity; and the empowerment of women as leaders, spiritualists, and warriors, all of which marked sharp breaks or reformulations of patterns in their Gold Coast past.
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More Than Chattel - Black Women And Slavery In The Americas

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 <DIV><B>Essays exploring Black women’s experiences with slavery in the Americas.</B><br/><br/>Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.<br/><br/>The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.<br/><br/><B>"A much-needed volume on a neglected topic of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history. Its broad comparative framework makes it all the more important, for it offers the basis for evaluating similarities and contrasts in the role of gender in different slave societies. . . . [This] will be required reading for students all of the American South, women’s history, and African American studies." —Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania</B></DIV>
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Blinded By The Whites - Why Race Still Matters In 21st-Century America

by David H. Ikard

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 Argues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo.
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Depression Comes To The South Side - Protest And Politics In The Black Metropolis, 1930-1933

by Christopher Robert Reed

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 Explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side
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Santeria From Africa To The New World - The Dead Sell Memories

by George Brandon

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 Addresses broader issues such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. This book examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism.
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The Assassination Of Herbert Chitepo - Texts And Politics In Zimbabwe

by Luise S. White

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 On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. This title uncovers what is at stake in the various confessions and why Chitepo's assassination incites conflict and controversy in Zimbabwe's politics.
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Gay Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance

by A.B. Christa Schwarz

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 Explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. This work focuses on Countze Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices.
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Crossing Boundaries - Comparative History Of Black People In Diaspora

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 People of African descent in the New World (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism. This volume embraces the challenge to probe differences embedded in Black ethnicities.
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Hine Sight - Black Women And The Re-Construction Of American History

by Darlene Clark Hine

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 The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country over the years. This collection of essays is written by a leading American historian.
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The Other Black Bostonians - West Indians In Boston, 1900-1950

by Violet M. Johnson

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 A study of Boston's West Indian immigrants, examining the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. It explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility.
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Mau Mau And Kenya - An Analysis Of A Peasant Revolt

by Wunyabari O. Maloba

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Class, Race, And The Civil Rights Movement

by Jack M. Bloom

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 Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it Jack M. Bloom analyzes the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification.
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Modern Republican - Arthur Larson And The Eisenhower Years

by David L. Stebenne

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 Arthur Larson was the chief architect of moderate conservatism - one of the influential political forces in US history. His book "A Republican Looks at His Party" provided the Eisenhower administration with 'the vision thing.' This book is suitable for readers who want to understand the historical context of today's divisive political arena.
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Making Men In Ghana

by Stephan F. Miescher

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 Featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this book explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It focuses on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation.
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Berber Culture On The World Stage - From Village To Video

by Jane Goodman

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 Explores Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene.
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Dirt, Undress, And Difference - Critical Perspectives On The Body'S Surface

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 A collection of essays which contribute insights into the topics of bodily treatments and transgressions. It explores how various forms of transgression associated with the body's surface are drawn up into relations of power and inequality. It also demonstrates how body surfaces are mobilized in the making and unmaking of moral worlds.
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Music Musique - French And American Piano Composition In The Jazz Age

by Barbara Meister

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 Starting with a look at the formation of American and French styles of composition, this book discusses the jazz influence on American composers such as Ives, Copland, and Seeger, and their reception in France. It emphasises on the piano solo literature or other piano music - song accompaniments, piano duets, or internal orchestral piano parts.
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The Slave'S Rebellion - Literature, History, Orature

by Adeleke Adeeko

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 Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual struggles. This book analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of historical slave rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal 'master-less' future.
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts - Manifestations Of Aje In Africana Literature

by Teresa N. Washington

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 Aje is a Yoruba word that signifies a spiritual power of vast potential. Although both men and women can have Aje, its owners and controllers are women, the literal and cosmic Mothers who are revered as the gods of society. This work points out that Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos and cosmology.
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