What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence each other? What are the histories and experiences of queer Africans? What imagi…
Postcoloniality - decoloniality - black critique: joints and fissures
by Stam, Robert, Shohat, Ella, Mignolo, Walter, Walcott, Rinaldo, Costa, Sergio, Haschemi Yekani, Elahe, McPherson, Annika, Dietze, Gabriele, Gržinić, Marina, Wilderson, Frank, Boatca, Manuela, Febel, Gisela, Gyssels, Kathleen, Kerner, Ina, Maart, Rozena, Michaelis, Beatrice, Nimako, Kwame, Rocchi, Jean-Paul, Tlostanova, Madina
Wie gelingt es, die noch heute anhaltenden Folgen von Kolonisierung und Versklavung theoretisch und methodisch umfassend zu begreifen? Der Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme von Positionen der Postkolonialen, Dekolonialen und der Black Studies. Dabei werden zum einen die unte…
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows, despite the changes politics, black artists have continued t…
The new African diaspora
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device-the spirometer-to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing th…
In the antebellum South, plantation physsicians used a new medical device - the spirometer - to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employi…
In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device-the spirometer-to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing th…
"Activating the past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on reli…
On the run in antebellum Indian territory -- Day-to-day resistance to the peculiar institution and the struggle to remain free in the antebellum Cherokee nation -- Conceptualizing and constructing African Indian racial and cultural identities in antebellum Indian territory -- Tr…
The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement. This hardcover edition of the modern classic, The autobiography of Malcolm X, is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voi…
Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black skin and the other of black slavery. This work unravels the etiologies and shows how the Curse, an etiol…
