Analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. This work furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.

A collection of essays that start with the premise that although race, like class and gender, is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. It discusses and analyzes various dimensions of the African American experience.

Offers thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. This book covers subjects such as slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity.

Explores the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have played in the formation of African Diaspora identities in the metropole since the 19th century.

Twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches on American racism, freedom and politics by international icon Angela Y. Davis.

The Montreal Lectures of CLR James.

Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways.

Since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. This book traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country.

Discussing and analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience of race, this collection of essays considers the ways in which race plays itself out in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial Africa.

A collection that provides scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, it covers many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity.

W C Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - some foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescapable. This book revises the history of the black vernacular tradition.

Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are three times as likely to live in poverty, and have a median household income barely half of that for white households. This book discusses possibilities for overcoming obstacles to black economic progress.

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These essays examine the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, on the liminal transatlantic journey, on the continent and the eventual return. The work seeks to reconceptualize the Middle Passage's meaning.

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This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa.

A timely book with the growing awareness of the multi-cultural nature of the UK.