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  • On Cultural Islam
    Shahidi Islam
    In an Age of American Empire What Real Hope is There for Black People?On Cultural Islam: A Godbody Sociology of 1990s Black America Shahidi Collection Vol 3 takes a novel look at life in late modernity, with specific focus on the 1990s and the global events that occurred during that momentous decade. It also investigates the godbody movement and seeks to find ways to define the...
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    28,25 €

  • Queer Anthropology
    Megan Dennis
    'Queer Anthropology: LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Culture, Kinship, and Belonging' is a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between queer identities and anthropological study, covering a wide range of topics including cultural constructs of gender and sexuality, kinship and family dynamics, representation in media and performance art, political activism, health disparities...
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    104,36 €

  • Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
    Abby Wallace / Lori Ann LaRocco
    In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experiences shaped and influenced future generations. The authors worked with family historians, gathered volumes of historical documents, and worked with historians from Montpelier, Mount V...
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    21,77 €

  • Cops on Campus
    Interrogates the relationship between higher education and the carceral stateOver the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolishe...
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    38,05 €

  • Cops on Campus
    Interrogates the relationship between higher education and the carceral stateOver the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolishe...
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    134,69 €

  • From Blues to Beyoncé
    Alexis McGee
    Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations. ...
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    127,05 €

  • Folklore Matters
    Bruce Jackson
    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America’s greatest folklorists. ...
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    126,46 €

  • Jewcy
    Marla Brettschneider
    Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness. ...
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    41,09 €

  • Co-conspirator for Justice
    Susan M. Reverby
    Alan Berkman (1945–2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by h...
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    37,53 €

  • Writing Kit Carson
    Susan Lee Johnson
    In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer ...
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    40,38 €

  • Culinary narratives
    Alejandro Cortés / Ernesto Licona
    Recently, the social sciences have shown an interest in the narratives and stories of individuals and social groups, which is why this inclination has been called the 'narrative turn'. It is based on the assertion that narratives are part of social life and that they allow us to understand the meaning that people give to their lives, in addition to highlighting the more structu...
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    77,81 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    133,87 €

  • In Our Words
    Wayne Herbert / Yenn Purkis
    What can we learn from the lived experiences of Disabled people identifying as LGBTQIA+?Through a series of personal reflections, In Our Words follows the difficult journeys of a number of Queer and Disabled authors from coming out to arriving at a place of positive identity.This empowering collection discusses the discrimination and hatred faced by the Queer and Disabled commu...
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    24,17 €

  • Discovering My Southern Legacy
    Deirdre Foreman
    What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family he...
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    24,29 €

  • Some of us are brave (Vol 2)
    Thandisizwe Chimurenga
    A society born of white supremacy and patriarchy must, by definition, ignore the voices of Black women. We know that, unfortunately, such an attitude will also naturally seep into every stratum of that societyPart of the contribution to correct that was the centering and airing of Black women’s voices through Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Radio Program that aired on Pac...
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    26,97 €

  • It Ain’t Easy Being A Jones
    Jerry Boyd Jones
    Take the journey of an African American from Mississippi as he struggles to learn his identity and place in society. Navigating the complex environment of racist people and traveling to Africa on a risk taking challenging to gain a foothold in life become adventures and mind expanding. ...
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    74,60 €

  • Health Equity
    MD Bonzo K. Reddick
    The global pandemic led to renewed interest in health disparities; however, numerous medical schools, residency programs, outpatient clinics, and hospital organizations were not equipped to teach about health equity.In Health Equity: A Guide for Clinicians, Medical Educators & Healthcare Organizations, Dr. Bonzo Reddick presents a framework for addressing health disparities tha...
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    22,51 €

  • Rail Road Rebels
    Sara L. Weston
    Exploring a part of history that remained largely untold, ’Rail Road Rebels’ delves into the shadows and onto the sunny patches of the lives led astray from the mainstream by choice or by necessity. The rails called out to those whose hearts yearned for freedom beyond the white picket fences, beyond the confines of a society that dictated the path one ought to walk- or rather,...
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    14,35 €

  • Perspectives on Transforming Higher Education and the LGBTQIA Student Experience
    Today’s institutions of higher education must continuously adapt to meet the evolving needs and expectations of each new generation of students. A significant and growing presence within academia is the LGBTQIA community. LGBTQIA individuals are now four times more likely to attend higher education institutions away from home. However, a substantial proportion of these students...
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    366,96 €

  • Tembé Stories
    Mônica Vieira
    Through Anthropology and Literature, we try to understand the stories present among the Tembé of Santa Maria do Pará (more specifically from the villages of Jeju and Areal) beyond literary oral narratives, but as identity-political tools that strengthen the struggle for indigenous rights. The Tembé have been forced to live with hundreds of squatter families on their land and su...
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    51,75 €

  • Men and masculinities in modern Britain
    Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain. ...
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    42,57 €

  • Redoing Linguistic Worlds
    This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender. ...
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    181,40 €

  • Redoing Linguistic Worlds
    This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender. ...
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    60,13 €

  • Phorgotten No More
    Wayne C Sherrer
    A meticulously researched account that shines a much needed searchlight on the African American experience in Philipsburg, New Jersey. It combines demographic, documentary, and narrative history-writing strategies to hold the reader’s interest and suggest new areas for further research. Dr. Paul D. Barclay, Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania  ...
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    22,30 €

  • Media Racism
    Marquita M Gammage
    'A powerful, well-researched indictment of racist media in the United States.'-Kirkus Reviewshttps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marquita-m-gammage/media-racism/As contemporary media continues to be a battleground for the portrayal of Black women, Gammage explores the troubling proliferation of racially informed media depictions of the lives of Black women, providing ess...
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    55,16 €

  • Transition Towards Gender Equality
    Sonja Gierse-Arsten
    Worldwide, Namibia ranks high regarding gender equality. However, many women are intimidated by violence perpetrated by men. This book is based on a social anthropological field research in the small town of Outjo, situated in Northern Central Namibia, over a period of 14 months. Gender is learnt, lived and reproduced in a societal frame. Violence against women, too, is perpetr...
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    61,06 €

  • The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia
    Alexandrina Vanke
    This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia’s post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban space under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism. ...
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    157,36 €

  • Slapping Leather
    Elyssa Ford / Rebecca Scofield
    Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closetCampy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West. Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over the deca...
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    134,71 €

  • Slapping Leather
    Elyssa Ford / Rebecca Scofield
    Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closetCampy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West. Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over the deca...
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    38,02 €

  • Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
    Daphne Lamothe
    The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies—termed the post-soul era—created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation. Daphne Lamothe shows that beginning around 1980 and continuing to the present day, Black literature, art, and music resisted the pull of singular and universal notions of racial i...
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    127,21 €


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