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Society & culture: general

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 black and white illustrations and 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816683246
ISBN
9780816683246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Malson, Micheline R.; Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth; O'Barr, Jean F.; Wyer, Mary. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226502960
ISBN
9780226502960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.94

Paperback. Addresses black women's negotiation of race and gender in African American music. This work explores the ways African American women musicians of the twentieth century have negotiated feminisms, engaged in social activism, and worked within - or sometimes independent of - a male-dominated music industry. Editor(s): Hayes, Eileen M.; Williams, Linda F. Series: African Amer Music in Global Perspective. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780252074264
ISBN
9780252074264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231083959
ISBN
9780231083959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.83

Paperback.
Publisher
For Beginners United States
Number of pages
189
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934389201
ISBN
9781934389201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.39

hardcover. Profiles are presented under the headings of orchestras and orchestra leaders, string players, wind and percussion players, keyboard players, and non-playing orchestra/band affiliates. Features 100 photographs. Num Pages: 432 pages, 100 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVH; AVRB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810834194
ISBN
9780810834194
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 22 black & white illustrations, 22 colour plates, 44 illus., 22 in color. BIC Classification: DSK; FX; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295994963
ISBN
9780295994963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573094160
ISBN
9781573094160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.23

Paperback. Argues for a redefinition of the genre of black American autobiography to include the images of women as well as their memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, and journals - as a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877228035
ISBN
9780877228035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. A collection of critical essays on black women's writing from Afro-American, African, South African, British and Caribbean novelists, poets, short story writers and a dramatist. Editor(s): Wisker, Gina. Series: Insights. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333522530
ISBN
9780333522530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 184.24

Paperback. Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity. Num Pages: 246 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813533674
ISBN
9780813533674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814745465
ISBN
9780814745465
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.90

Hardback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801448966
ISBN
9780801448966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 50.87

Paperback. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 54 tables, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 10. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
9780691070155
ISBN
9780691070155
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.99
€ 36.72

paperback. Examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. This book looks at how television's ideological projects with respect to race have supported or conflicted with the industry's incentive to maximize profits or consolidate power. Num Pages: 168 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFD; JFSL3; JPVH1; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691016573
ISBN
9780691016573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 28.53

Paperback. This collection of major essays spans Hortense Spiller's work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769806
ISBN
9780226769806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX; PD; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
398
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Reprinted by Arrangement with OUP
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226458007
ISBN
9780226458007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.22

Hardback. Including 410 entries-drawn from over 100 years of novels, short stories, plays, and children's and young adult literature-this bibliography demonstrates both the extent and the richness of the fiction which has been written about Black-Jewish relations in America, thus enhancing our view of American ethnic literature as a whole. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK; GBCR; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810842182
ISBN
9780810842182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.41

Hardcover. .
Publisher
New York Review Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590177693
ISBN
9781590177693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.06

Paperback. This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It explores the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigates the price students pay for attaining it. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHMP; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226257143
ISBN
9780226257143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.61

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