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Displacements and Diasporas
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 26.95Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses... more...
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99"African Ethnobotany in the Americas" provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and... more...
In Search of Empire
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00In Search of Empire is the first full account of how, during 1670 and 1730, French settlers came to the Americas. Bringing together much new evidence, it examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with American Indians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. more...
Demonic Grounds
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 60.00Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, Katherine McKittrick addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's attic, black Canada and New France, as well as... more...
Neither Enemies nor Friends
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 37.00In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos'... more...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 23.00Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved... more...
Flash of the Spirit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Founding Myths
New Press, The 2006; US$ 15.95With wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in thirteen of America?s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere?s famous ride to Patrick Henry?s ?Liberty or Death? speech. Exploring the dynamic intersection between history-making and story-making, award-winning author and historian Ray Raphael shows how these fictions?conceived... more...
Identity in the Shadow of Slavery
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape... more...









