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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesWhy do b...
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Africa, Fourth Edition / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. ...
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles ...
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Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Exploringthe movements of Cuban material objects and digital content across borders Despite decades of diplomatic hostilities and economicsanctio...
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Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accura...
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Eland's People: New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen Essays in Memory of Patricia Vinnicombe
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /A companion to People of Eland that allows an overview of Drakensberg rock art Only 1000 copies of People of the Eland were printed in 1976. It was...
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author o...
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Freedom's Racial Frontier, 13: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning ...
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Freedom's Racial Frontier, 13: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning ...
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Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagemen...
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North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communitie...
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People of the Eland: Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a Reflection of Their Life and Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The cornerstone of current understanding of rock art of the San of Drakensberg First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the first major ste...
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Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South ...
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association fo...
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Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An examination of the influence of race and racism on the research experienceA white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mat...
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Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological...
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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rura...
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Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa: Gender, Personhood, and the Crisis of Meaning
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rura...
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Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Sacred Rice explores the cultural intricacies through which Jola farmers in West Africa are responding to their environmental and economic conditio...
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Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolit...
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The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the ...
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Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of ...
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Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of ...
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Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America: Anthropological Perspectives
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to e...
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