Using a Black decolonial feminist approach, this book deconstructs 'the white sambo psyche' of white European settler colonialism, which classifies the colonised and enslaved into 'sambo': a category of racial subjection and utter negation which is now so normalized that we are inured to it.
Using a Black decolonial feminist approach, this book deconstructs 'the white sambo psyche' of white European settler colonialism, which classifies the colonised and enslaved into 'sambo': a category of racial subjection and utter negation which is now so normalized that we are inured to it.
Dispatches from the Diasporabrings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity.
They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies.
Amid the eulogies and celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, the darker side of evolutionary theory should not be forgotten.
Saviours and Survivors is the first account of the Darfur crisis to consider recent events within the broad context of Sudan's history, and to examine the efficacy of the world's response to the ongoing violence.
The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery.
Figuren, Geschichten und Erzählformen aus islamischen Traditionskontexten finden heute auf vielfältige Art Eingang in kulturelle Praktiken in Europa und verändern den Blick auf Islam und Muslime.
"En la primavera del 1982 dos criminólogos americanos, Willson y Kelling, publicaron un modesto artículo en la revista The Atlantic Monthly, que bajo el título "Broken Windows", pretendía establecer una teoría sobre las causas de la delincuencia, especialmente aquella que tiene lugar en los espacios públicos".
As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic Other living just a stone s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination.
In the nineteenth century, the hotly disputed border region between Denmark and Germany was the focus of an intricate conflict that complicates questions of ethnic and national identity even today.
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations.
An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters.
About 150 years ago Lewis Henry Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains.
Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II.
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a humanitarian case .
Written by an outstanding authority and profusely illustrated, this is a comprehensive study of the Indians that lived from Yakutat Bay in Alaska to the northern coast of California.
A LUSTY, ROARING NOVEL ABOUT ONE MAN'S RELENTLESS BATTLE TO GET THE RAILROAD THROUGHThis is the story of FRANK PEACE, TROUBLE SHOOTER for the Union Pacific Railroad, handpicked as the only man in the West who could get the road across a thousand miles of rugged desert and mountains, through fighting Indian territory, past the organized bands of outlaws hired to kill him, and in the face of powerful interests determined to smash him.
Dygartsbush, New York, in the year 1778-smoke rising from lonely cabins, but not the fragrant smoke of cookfires, welcoming the men home from clearing, forest and trail.
LOVE AND ADVENTURE ON THE FRONTIERThis is a story of some of the soldiers who won the West through bitter battles against the Indians, paying for the expansion of a continent with their blood, the story of their life in battle and between battles.
