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What Is Slavery to Me?: Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A study of slave memory in South Africa using feminist, postcolonial and memory studies Much has been made about South Africa's transition from his...
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important tech...
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Secrets of Voodoo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ...
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Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Explore the vibrant Native American experience with this comprehensive and affordable historical overview of Indigenous communities and Native Am...
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We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means--and how we take steps to get there.Product Det...
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 5th Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of Anzaldúa's classic text. "The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds...
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Letters from Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /LETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, invites readers to journey every air mile traveled by a...
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Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop: Geo-ethical and Political Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Afrosofian Knowledge and Cheikh Anta Diop wrestles with the cultural, epistemological, ethical, and geopolitical conundrums of our contemporary wor...
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Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book investigates the role of colonization on diabetes, depression, and food insecurity in Puerto Rico and highlights the role of health activ...
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781556520488 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Publication Date: 04-01-1991 Pages: 464 Product Dimensio...
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Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both ple...
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Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. Winner...
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian indigenous chief, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, played a key role in l...
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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown sav...
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Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in ...
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Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of "Indians" in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Nati...
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporti...
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AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s sw...
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Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /There is a rich body of literature on the experience of Japanese immigrants in the United States, and there are also numerous accounts of the cul...
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Social Work and the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism: Concepts, Theory, and Evidence Based Approaches
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This text offers a compendium of knowledge and perspectives from leading researchers dedicated to examining various forms of racism and their disti...
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Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for t...
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Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Suspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling from historica...
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Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...
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Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government a...
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