Black Studies - Race & Ethnic Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Trans-Atlantic Migration

   The Paradoxes of Exile

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Prison Labor in the United States

   An Economic Analysis

   By Asatar Bair

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

   Blackness and Genre

   By Novotny Lawrence

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

   Edited by Antonio D. Tillis

   Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

   After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

   Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

   Edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Jim Crow Citizenship

   Liberalism and the Southern Defense of Racial Hierarchy

   By Marek D. Steedman

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation, of course, did not stick, but it did permanently alter the terms of American citizenship and initiated a century long struggle over the place of...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sport Past and Present in South Africa

   (Trans)forming the Nation

   Edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   This book provides an interpretation of sport in contemporary South Africa through an historical account of the evolution and social ramifications of sport in the twentieth century. It comprises chapters which trace the growth of sports such as football, cricket, surfing, boxing and rugby, and...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
10. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

    The New Negro's Western Experience

    Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce Glasrud

    Series: New Directions in American History

    The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge