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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Berghahn Books 2009; US$ 90.00Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies... more...
Utopias of Otherness
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 67.50In Utopias of Otherness, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil, both subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including José Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergílio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela... more...
Conjuring Crisis
Rutgers University Press 2010; US$ 25.95How have civil rights transformed racial politics in America? Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, Conjuring Crisis counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes "reformed" politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights... more...
Legacies of Race
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 25.95A novel exploration of racial attitudes in contemporary Brazil using large-sample surveys of public opinion. more...
Immigration and Xenophobia
University Press of America 2008; US$ 36.99In Immigration and Xenophobia, Rosana Barbosa discusses Portuguese migration to Rio de Janeiro from 1822 to 1850 as a significant aspect of the city's history. During the first half of the nineteenth century, many Portuguese fled the difficult economic and social conditions in Portugal for better economic opportunities in post-independence Brazil,... more...
The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 168.00The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves.... more...
Yanomami
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology?questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy?one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios?as its starting point, this book draws readers into not... more...
Bluecoats and Tar Heels
The University Press of Kentucky 2009; US$ 25.00In Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina, Mark L. Bradley examines the complex relationship between U.S. Army soldiers and North Carolina civilians after the Civil War. Postwar violence and political instability led the federal government to deploy elements of the U.S. Army in the Tar Heel State, but their... more...
Upbuilding Black Durham
The University of North Carolina Press 2008; US$ 28.95In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills,... more...
Shifting Loyalties
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 37.50In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights into the effects of war on southerners and the nature... more...









