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Hardback. Using the multiple meanings of "wake" to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery's afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance. Num Pages: 192 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362838
ISBN
9780822362838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.92

Hardback. Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 312 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AVC; AVG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362821
ISBN
9780822362821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Hardback. In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HBTV; JFSL3; JPL; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362753
ISBN
9780822362753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 1KJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362623
ISBN
9780822362623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362562
ISBN
9780822362562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Hardback. In Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 448 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362524
ISBN
9780822362524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; 1KJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362470
ISBN
9780822362470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.27

Paperback. Ernesto Bassi examines the lives of those who resided in the Caribbean between 1760 and 1860 to trace the configuration of a dynamic geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, where residents made their own geographies and futures while trade, information, and people circulated freely across borders. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362401
ISBN
9780822362401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Hardback. Ernesto Bassi examines the lives of those who resided in the Caribbean between 1760 and 1860 to trace the configuration of a dynamic geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean, where residents made their own geographies and futures while trade, information, and people circulated freely across borders. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362203
ISBN
9780822362203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Hardback. Karin Amimoto Ingersoll uses her concept of seascape epistemology to articulate an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean that can provide the means for generating an alternative indigenous politics and ethics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBTB; HPK; JFSL4; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362128
ISBN
9780822362128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Hardback. Gary Y. Okihiro presents the intellectual history of the core ideas, concepts, methods, and theories of Third World studies-an academic field first proposed in 1968 that never existed-in order to provide tools for understanding power and ending oppression. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: 1QFG; HBG; HBTB; HBTQ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 5. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362098
ISBN
9780822362098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.62

Hardback. Containing over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship-most published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multi-layered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. Editor(s): Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann; Palacios, Marco; Gomez Lopez, Ana Maria. Series: The Latin America Readers. Num Pages: 648 pages, 103 illustrations (incl. 8 page color insert). BIC Classification: 1KLSC; HBJK; HBTB; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362074
ISBN
9780822362074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.48

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

€ 123.83

Paperback. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361985
ISBN
9780822361985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 33.63

Paperback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Preface
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361664
ISBN
9780822361664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Hardback. In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American man and raising two sons as she learns, from family experience, teaching, and her studies, about the realities of racism in America. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: BK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361473
ISBN
9780822361473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Hardback. Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial Sao Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to Sao Paulo. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBTB; HBTK; JFFN; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361152
ISBN
9780822361152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.87

paperback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360902
ISBN
9780822360902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Hardback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. 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
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360766
ISBN
9780822360766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.87

Hardback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. 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
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360483
ISBN
9780822360483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.87

paperback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360414
ISBN
9780822360414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.33

Hardback. Editor(s): Hanna, Monica; Harford Vargas, Jennifer; Saldivar, Jose David. Num Pages: 445 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
445
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360247
ISBN
9780822360247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.09

Hardback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360230
ISBN
9780822360230
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.94

Paperback. In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360018
ISBN
9780822360018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.18

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