The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or “location.” Read more... 

Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction

Description: Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction explores African diaspora religious practices as vehicles for Africana women’s spiritual transformation, using representative fictions by three contemporary writers of the African Americas who compose fresh models of female spirituality: Breath, Eyes, Memory Read more...

Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements

How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry

Brazil has the largest national economy in Latin America and a population five times greater than any other South American country–and for nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world’s premier sex tourism destination. As Read more...

Rastafari in the New Millennium

This book covers a wide range of perspectives, focusing not only on the movement’s nuanced and complex religious ideology but also on its political philosophy, cosmology, and unique epistemology. Drawing on new research and global developments, the contributors, many of whom are leading scholars in the field, reinvigorate the Read more...

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

In “Left of Karl Marx”, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones Read more...

Claudia Jones. Beyond Containment. Autobiographical Reflections, Essays, Poems

A collection of the available work of Claudia Jones, divided into four main sections, each with an introductory section: Autobiographical reflections; Essays (divided into Race and Black Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Black Political Prisoners and the defense of Black Activism, The Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora); Poetry and an Read more...

Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture (3 vols)

Five hundred years of relocation and dislocation, of assimilation and separation have produced a rich tapestry of history and culture into which are woven people, places, and events. This authoritative, accessible work picks out the strands of the tapestry, telling the story of diverse peoples, separated by time Read more...

Integrated But Unequal: Black Faculty in Predominately White Space

This book is groundbreaking and unique. The emphasis is on Black faculty based in the US and UK working in predominately White universities. The scholars in this volume are all successful in their chosen fields, some are extremely successful. Yet they have reached the heights of victory in academia against Read more...

A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: the Life of Harry Haywood

This is a condensed edition of the autobiography of Harry Haywood published in 1778 as Black Bolshevik . The new edition contains an introduction by the editor who is the widow of Haywood. It emphasizes the popular struggles, which have become part of silenced history partially as a Read more...

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain Read more...

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song “Pelo telephone” (“On the Telephone”) at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil’s cultural landscape. Read more...

Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism

Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgrounds became radicalized, joined the CPUSA, and advocated a Read more...

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana’s struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony’s first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in Read more...

Modernity, Freedom and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris

The book investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the Read more...

The Americans Are Coming

For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Read more...

From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago

In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago Read more...

Sojourner Truth’s America

Organized chronologically into three distinct eras of Truth’s life, Sojourner Truth’s America examines the complex dynamics of her times, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as Isabella and her embroilments in legal controversy. Truth’s awakening during nineteenth-century America’s progressive surge then propelled her ascendancy as a Read more...

Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora

Indiana University Press, 2007 Format: cloth 528 pages, 56 b&w photos, 18 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34919-4 ISBN: 0-253-34919-2 A breakthrough volume in the study of the material culture of the slave trade. This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African Read more...

Diasporic Africa, A Reader

“This sparkling mosaic of thought from the African Diaspora redraws the boundaries of relevant scholarship to the benefit of a wide array of students and scholars. A greatly needed volume.” – Sterling Stuckey, Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside “A valuable Read more...