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  • Living Cargo

    How Black Britain Performs Its Past

    de Steven Blevins ...
    Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade in order to ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Africa

    Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

    de Richard Dowden ...
    After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    de Harvey Amani Whitfield ...
    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Auguste Renoir: 190 Master Drawings

    de Blagoy Kiroff ...
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir is French painter who was important figure in the development of the Impressionist movement. The female nudes were one of his primary themes. His early work reflected many influences including those of Courbet, Manet, Corot, Ingres and Delacroix. Under the influence of Gustave Courbet and painters of the School of Barbizon he turned to plein air painting. Together with Claude ... Leer más

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  • Paul Robeson

    The Artist as Revolutionary

    de Gerald Horne ...
    Series series Revolutionary Lives
    A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation - battling ... Leer más

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  • Hip Hop's Inheritance

    From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

    de Reiland Rabaka ...
    Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture, all the while critically ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Black Women against the Land Grab

    The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil

    de Keisha-Khan Y. Perry ...
    In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Baroque Seville

    Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis

    de Amanda Wunder ...
    Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens.Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora

    Travelling Blackness

    de Manoucheka Celeste ...
    Series series Routledge Transformations in Race and Media
    Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book AwardWith the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black experiences, and the intersection of black and immigrant identities. Citizenship as it is commonly understood ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Jumbies' Playing Ground

    Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean

    de Robert Wyndham Nicholls ...
    Series series Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
    During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural and economic events throughout the Caribbean, and are a direct link to a multilayered history.This work ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

    de Margaret Tali ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Ruskin's Artists

    Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy

    Edición de Robert Hewison ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's relationship with an individual artist or a distinct aspect of art practice. J.M.W. Turner, D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt and E. Burne-Jones are ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD