Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Paperback - Sabrina Strings

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particular...

Reducere. How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particular...

This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mi...

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Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "whit...

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This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

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Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

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The groundbreaking science behind why we need to rethink our relationship with a much-maligned organ: fat

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial pro...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Neg...

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Reducere. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-...

Tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discriminati...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

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This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and community, who engaged in a multig...

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

Publisher: Mandrake of OxfordAuthor(s): Ron WymanNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 137 x 212 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence ...

What if we stopped placing our confidence in the things of this world---and instead put our trust in the only one who is truly trustworthy?Publishe...

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Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

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Contributor(s): Author: David F. GarciaIn Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and a...

Reducere. Celebrating 30 years as a classic in its field and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook is an unparalleled, essenti...

DescriptionActivists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil righ...