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  • West Indian in the West

    Self Representations in a Migrant Community

    by Percy Hintzen ...
    As new immigrant communities continue to flourish in U.S. cities, their members continually face challenges of assimilation in the organization of their ethnic identities. West Indians provide a vibrant example.In West Indian in the West, Percy Hintzen draws on extensive ethnographic work with the West Indian community in the San Francisco Bay area to illuminate the ways in which social context ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Modernization as Spectacle in Africa

    by Percy Hintzen, Andrew Apter, Rosaleen Smyth, Aaron Windel, Mhoze Chikowero, Julia Tischler, Gabrielle Hecht, Jean Allman, Nathan Plageman, Christina McMahon, Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Aida Mbowa ...
    For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Global Circuits of Blackness

    Interrogating the African Diaspora

    by Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, Felipe Smith, Marlon M. Bailey, Jung Ran Forte, Reena N Goldthree, Lyndon Phillip, Andrea Queeley0, Stéphane Robolin1 ...
    Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the encounters of different forms of blackness converging on the global scene.Contributors examine the many ways blacks have ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Reproducing Domination

    On the Caribbean Postcolonial State

    Edited by Percy C. Hintzen, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Aaron Kamugisha ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the past forty years, Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the postcolonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Problematizing Blackness

    Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States

    by Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy Hintzen ...
    Series series Crosscurrents in African American History
    This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Color of Hunger

    Race and Hunger in National and International Perspective

    by Nazir Ahmad, Kevin Danaher, Tshenuwani Simon Farisani, Percy Hintzen, Mutombo Mpanya, Beatriz Manz, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, David L. L. Shields, Michele Tingling-Clemmons, Dessima Williams ...
    The first book ever to examine the links between hunger and race, The Color of Hunger probes the contemporary and historical reasons hunger is concentrated among people of color, both domestically and globally. ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    by Jane H. Hill ...
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  • White Out

    The Continuing Significance of Racism

    Edited by Ashley W. Doane, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
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    by Mark Goodale ...
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