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  • The Bow and the Lyre

    The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora

    Volume 1, Part 2

    Edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora

    Volume 1, Part 1

    Edited by Ruth Simms Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. The book addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Recollections of Things to Come

    by Elena Garro ...
    Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms ...
    This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Miss Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora

    Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations

    Edited by Glenn A. Chambers, Tama Hamilton-Wray, Rita Kiki Edozie ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    This anthology presents a new study of the worldwide African diaspora by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary scholarship to address the connectedness of Black subject identities, experiences, issues, themes, and topics, applying them dynamically to diverse locations of the Blackworld—Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. The book underscores three dimensions of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca

    Bahia Reconsidered

    Edited by Scott Ickes, Bernd Reiter ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by scholars whose work has made important contributions to the field of Bahian studies over the last two decades. The authors interrogate and problematize the idea of Bahia as a Black Mecca, or a haven where ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas

    Edited by Kimberly Eison Simmons, Bernd Reiter ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others were normalized. Far from being “racial paradises” populated by an amalgamated “cosmic race” of mulattos and mestizos, Latin America and the Caribbean have long been sites of shifting exploitative ... Read more

    $32.89 USD

  • The Value of Industrial Relations

    Contemporary Work and Employment in Britain

    by Jenny Rodriguez, Anne McBride, Guglielmo Meardi, Steve Williams, Tony Dundon, Adrian Wilkinson, Edmund Heery, Gregor Gall, Melanie Simms, Sian Moore, Stefanie Williamson, Kirsty Newsome, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Rob Mackenzie, Jill Rubery, Ruth Dukes, Eleanor Kirk ...
    Series series Understanding Work and Employment Relations
    Published in collaboration with BUIRA, this book provides a critical review of the field of industrial relations (IR) and evaluates its future in the rapidly evolving world of work.Written by key names in IR, the book captures the significant transformations that have taken place within the field over the past decade. It traces the historical development of IR, exploring its ongoing impact on our ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Diverse Pathways

    Race and the Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-Origin Africans in the United States

    by Kevin J. A. Thomas ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The African Union's Africa

    New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance

    by Rita Kiki Edozie, Keith Gottschalk ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    The African Union’s Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Governance examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international actors. Taking a unique approach, the book seeks to explain the AU through a theoretical framework referred to as “the African Union phenomenon,” ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations

    Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church

    by Harry N. K. Odamtten ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Motorcycle on Hell Run

    Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964–1974

    by Seth M. Markle ...
    Series series Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
    Between 1964 and 1974 Tanzania came to be regarded as a model nation and a leading frontline state in the struggle for African liberation on the continent and beyond. During this time, a number of African American and Caribbean nationalists, leftists, and pan-Africanists traveled to and settled in Tanzania to join the country that many believed to be leading Africa’s liberation struggle. This ... Read more

    $28.79 USD