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  • Deaf German Missionary Berta Foster (1939-2018) and Deaf Education in West Africa

    A Woman in the Background

    by Anja Werner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    In 1960, 21-year-old Berta Zuther left her life in West Berlin behind to join African American missionary Andrew Foster in Ghana, thus embarking on a journey that would span three continents and result in the establishment of schools for the deaf across Africa. Berta and Andrew were both deaf themselves. They got married in Nigeria in 1961 and devoted their lives to building educational ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Anywhere But Here

    Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond

    Edited by Kendahl Radcliffe, Jennifer Scott, Anja Werner ...
    Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja WernerAnywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eighteenth century. The book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    An American Lyric

    by Claudia Rankine ...
    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Fire This Time

    A New Generation Speaks about Race

    by Jesmyn Ward ...
    The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify” (USA TODAY).In this bestselling, widely ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • And Still I Rise

    by Doreen Lawrence ...
    ' This book for me is a warning as well as a reminder. May you never experience what I have experienced.'In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in south-east London. From the first police investigation onwards, the case was badly mishandled. In the end, long after the case against the five suspects had been dropped, the government had to give in to ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • If I Just Had Two Wings

    by Virginia Frances Schwartz ...
    In her dreams, Phoebe twirls through rows of sea island cotton as a white dress blows around her knees like a breeze. As she dances, she loses all memory of being born a slave on an Alabama plantation. She lifts up her feet and flies high above the fields, as light as air. Before her a single white star shines. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She ... Read more

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  • The Yengishiki/The Englishiki

    by Various ...
    Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan herself. It remains Japan's major religion besides Buddhism. "Shinto gods" are called kami. They are sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers and fertility. Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their ... Read more

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  • F.B. Eyes

    How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature

    by William J. Maxwell ...
    How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau’s ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Queer Necropolitics

    Edited by Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco ...
    Series series Social Justice
    This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts – the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, the Philippines, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Let's Explore India (Most Famous Attractions in India)

    India Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    With picture books, a child can see, feel, hear and even smell India. Picture books are multi-sensory experiences that challenge your child's senses. They tackle the part of the brain that is responsible for logic. Make learning fun and easy to remember with the use of this picture book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Commerce of Peoples

    Sadomasochism and African American Literature

    by Biman Basu ...
    Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, too, it is still persistently stigmatized. This marginalization, along with its ambivalently persecuted status, is a result, significantly, of a ... Read more

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  • Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India

    Claims, Histories, Meanings

    by Pooja Parmar ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    As calls for reparations to indigenous peoples grow on every continent, issues around resource extraction and dispossession raise complex legal questions. What do these disputes mean to those affected? How do the narratives of indigenous people, legal professionals, and the media intersect? In this richly layered and nuanced account, Pooja Parmar focuses on indigeneity in the widely publicized ... Read more

    $38.59 USD