W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures – serie
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just and perfect democracy.Preeminent …
Define and Rule
Native as Political Identity
Inbunden, 2012
431 kr
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Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines …
Fateful Triangle
Race, Ethnicity, Nation
Häftad, 2021
166 kr
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“Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today.”—Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, …
What Was African American Literature?
Häftad, 2012
322 kr
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African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African …
Race Men
Häftad, 2000
362 kr
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Who are the “race men” standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these …
Big Enough to Be Inconsistent
Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race
Inbunden, 2008
431 kr
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“Cruel, merciful; peace-loving, a fighter; despising Negroes and letting them fight and vote; protecting slavery and freeing slaves.” Abraham Lincoln was, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, “big enough to be inconsistent.” Big enough, indeed, for every generation to have its own Lincoln—unifier or …
Home Elsewhere
Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama
Inbunden, 2010
481 kr
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In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama’s Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on …
Blacks In and Out of the Left
Inbunden, 2013
431 kr
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The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson investigates the causes and consequences of the decline of black radicalism as a force in American politics and argues that the conventional left has …
Seeing Through Race
Inbunden, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
418 kr
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According to W. J. T. Mitchell, a “color-blind” post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is …
Darker than Blue
On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
Av Paul Gilroy
Häftad, 2011
280 kr
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Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing place of black culture?Gilroy considers the …
Three Ancient Colonies
Caribbean Themes and Variations
Häftad, 2012
304 kr
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As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him. These reflections illuminate continuities …
Anatomy of Racial Inequality
With a New Preface
Häftad, 2021
186 kr
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“Lifts and transforms the discourse on ‘race’ and racial justice to an entirely new level.”—Orlando Patterson“Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful…An incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.”—Gerald Early, New York Times Book ReviewWhy are black Americans so persistently confined to the …
Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012
Inbunden, 2014
431 kr
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After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the …
Families in Peril
An Agenda for Social Change
Häftad, 1989
315 kr
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Too many American families—unstable, broken, often poor—are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that reality call for attention and swift action. In this most incisive analysis of the parlous state of the family today, Marian Wright Edelman, President of …
Lines of Descent
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Inbunden, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
445 kr
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American …
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Inbunden, 2024
278 kr
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just and perfect democracy.“Like …
