African Studies

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Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Researching Black Communities

A Methodological Guide

Practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World

Rituals and Remembrances

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

The Next Twenty-five Years

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in diverse democracies

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world