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Paperback. Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illustrations, 9 tables, notes, biblography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807871584
ISBN
9780807871584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.87

Hardback. "Blackness without Ethnicity" draws on 15 years of Livio Sansone's research in Bahia, Rio Suriname and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293741
ISBN
9780312293741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.75

Paperback. "Blackness without Ethnicity" draws on 15 years of Livio Sansone's research in Bahia, Rio Suriname and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293758
ISBN
9780312293758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.63

Paperback. Essays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the region s history from the earliest colonial times to the present. Editor(s): Gudmundson, Lowell; Wolfe, Justin. Num Pages: 416 pages, 21 photographs, 14 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348030
ISBN
9780822348030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Explores the works of leading black and Jewish writers from the 1950s to the 1980s. Series Editor(s): Gelpi, Albert (Stanford University, California); Posnock, Ross. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 375. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004244
ISBN
9780521635752
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. The Black-Jewish conflict in the US, without effective strategies for intervention, can only be expected to worsen. This volume suggests a psychoanalytic approach to addressing and resolving the issues causing the conflict, such as feelings of powerlessness and economic marginalization. Editor(s): Helmreich, Alan; Marcus, Paul R. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSR1; JHMP; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780275956660
ISBN
9780275956660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.59

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
With a New Preface
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632094
ISBN
9780691632094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.61

Paperback. Shows that America's history of racial oppression has had a deep and fundamental effect on the religious beliefs and practices of blacks and whites across America Series: Religion and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCM; JFFJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
290
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814722763
ISBN
9780814722763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Useful for tennis players, sports historians, readers of black history and/or black sports figures, and all those interested in the sport, this book looks at the rich history of blacks on US tennis courts. The author examines the role that this white sport traditionally played in the black community. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 black-&-white photographs, glossary, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; WSJR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608189
ISBN
9780815608189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.18

Hardback. The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJK; JFSL3; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 212 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057685
ISBN
9780674057685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.84

paperback. This title emhasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRJ; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780814726815
ISBN
9780814726815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

hardcover. This revised work adds 15 years to the life stories of the African Americans whose opportunities were dramatically changed by a nationally prominent educational opportunity programme that provided scholarships for disadvantaged people of colour to attend the same boarding schools as wealthy whites. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSL3; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742516205
ISBN
9780742516205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.82

Paperback. This revised work adds 15 years to the life stories of the African Americans whose opportunities were dramatically changed by a nationally prominent educational opportunity programme that provided scholarships for disadvantaged people of colour to attend the same boarding schools as wealthy whites. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSL3; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742516212
ISBN
9780742516212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.42

paperback. A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 1KBCV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Vermont Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584656067
ISBN
9781584656067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.81

Paperback. Helps you meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has hired to operate in international war zones and on American oil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWXN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846686528
ISBN
9781846686528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. Discusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 416 pages, 35 photographs, 3 tables, 3 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345428
ISBN
9780822345428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Hardback. Bleached Faith argues that the gravest threat to real faith in modern America comes from those who would water down religion in order to win the dubious honor of forcing it into public buildings and classrooms. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758611
ISBN
9780804758611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811716727
ISBN
9780811716727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.59

Hardcover. Catherine Bowler's Blessed represents the first attempt to examine the twentieth-century American prosperity gospel movement as a whole, seeking to introduce readers to its major figures and features. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRCC9; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199827695
ISBN
9780199827695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.38

Paperback. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? This title describes how these ordinary people conceive of citizenship, how they acquire and exercise power, and how religious ideas and institutions contribute to their successes. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHB; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156651
ISBN
9780691156651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

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