Black Studies

Amongst other things, this book is a devastating critique of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", in which he mused about black inferiority. Its publication in 1810, after Jefferson's opposition to its appearance, was a major event for African Americans...

Shawan M. Worsley analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequ..

Shawan M. Worsley analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequ..

A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship that traces the crucial developments and debates of the last twenty years. It is the first volume entirely dedicated to the writings of black women in a British context...

Departing from conventional studies of black women, which characterize them as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes and welfare queens, this text uses the concept of a "collective memory" to show how black women cope with and interpret lives often pervaded with racial barriers not of their making...

In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication...

Patricia A. Banks examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks...

Patricia A. Banks examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks...