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Paperback. Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346098
- ISBN
- 9780822346098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346623
- ISBN
- 9780822346623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Paperback. Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Num Pages: 440 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822346746
- ISBN
- 9780822346746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. An account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346982
- ISBN
- 9780822346982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. A history of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the 1960s and early 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347491
- ISBN
- 9780822347491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Hardback. The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFFH2; MBNH; MBS; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780822348627
- ISBN
- 9780822348627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75
Paperback. Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; AN; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349235
- ISBN
- 9780822349235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardback. Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 51 photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JWXN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350590
- ISBN
- 9780822350590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Hardback. Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Num Pages: 328 pages, 78 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351481
- ISBN
- 9780822351481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.91
€ 115.91
Hardback. Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359463
- ISBN
- 9780822359463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.29
€ 115.29
Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360278
- ISBN
- 9780822360278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Paperback. In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360360
- ISBN
- 9780822360360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360773
- ISBN
- 9780822360773
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Hardback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822360803
- ISBN
- 9780822360803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.85
€ 122.85
Paperback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360919
- ISBN
- 9780822360919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatan, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361510
- ISBN
- 9780822361510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Paperback. In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatan, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJH; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361701
- ISBN
- 9780822361701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. In Religion and the Making of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures along with the legacies of British colonial rule have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; HBJH; HBTB; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362067
- ISBN
- 9780822362067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Hardback. In a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms. Editor(s): Hasso, Frances S.; Salime, Zakia. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JM; HBJF1; JFSJ; JHB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362210
- ISBN
- 9780822362210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
Hardback. Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive, showing that alternative critical imaginings juxtaposed against traditional historical research can help to locate where agency and will may reside. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; AN; HBJH; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363095
- ISBN
- 9780822363095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.75
€ 110.75