"Marxist Theory, Black/African Specificities, and Racism examines Marxist theory and its utility in interpreting Black specificities and explaining the race paradigm. Traditionally, Marxist theory has been excluded because it is supposedly class and economy reductionist, but the…
"Demolishing the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court's doctrine of state action killed Reconstruction, Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights and redefines the legal transition to Jim Crow"-- "American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinel…
"In this book of textual and cultural studies, Myriam J.A. Chancy focuses on the tropes of transnationalism, testimony and transmission within African diasporic texts. Not a work simply concerned with 'racial rehabilitation' or 'inclusion' within the dominant discourses of North…
"Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and…
"Amazing visual timelines take readers through the people and the issues that have shaped Black history. Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Under appreciated. No longer. Delve into the unique, inspiring, and world-changing history of Black people. From Frederick Douglass to Oprah Wi…