Product Description: While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition, the leading international journal of the Black Diaspora, invites the world to write back. Its far-flung writers fill the magazine's pages with unusual dispatches, unforgettable memoirs, unorthodox polemics, unlikely conversations, and unsurpassed original fiction...read more

A guide to the history and current state of Africa and African American heritage includes entries on topics ranging from affirmative action to zydeco.

An approach to the basic questions of philosophy explores the role of previous philosophers, such as Hobbes and Wittgenstein, in answering these questions while providing a new mode of philosophy.

Product Description: Based on the encyclopedia of the African-American experience by Harvard professors Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this calendar is a testament to the remarkable legacy of Africa and the African Diaspora. Packed with photographs, maps, and other ephemera, the calendar offers a year's worth of fascinating historical information, celebrating the rich history of African-American literature, music, art, and culture...read more

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is misleading, Post lobbies for deploying sociological understandings to reevaluate the antidiscrimination project in ways that would render the law more effective and just. Four distinguished commentators respond to Post’s provocative essay. Each adopts a distinctive perspective. K. Anthony Appiah investigates the philosophical logic of stereotyping and of equality. Questioning whether the law ought to endorse any social practices that define persons, Judith Butler explores the tension between sociological and postmodern approaches to antidiscrimination law. Thomas C. Grey examines whether Post’s proposal can be reconciled with the values of the rule of law. And Reva B. Siegel applies critical race theory to query whether antidiscrimination law’s reshaping of race and gender should best be understood in terms of practices of subordination and stratification. By illuminating the consequential rhetorical maneuvers at the heart of contemporary U.S. antidiscrimination law, Prejudical Appearances forces readers to reappraise the relationship between courts of law and social behavior. As such, it will enrich scholars interested in the relationships between law, rhetoric, postmodernism, race, and gender. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The esteemed scholars Appiah & Gates have compiled the first authoritative overview of global culture to emphasize the achievement of the non-Western world. Ranging from the Abakwa Society to zydeco music, the dictionary provides a vast survey of cultural subjects from all over the world -- East Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, & Australasia, as well as Europe & North America...read more

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Product Description: “There will be no birth without miscegenation.”—Rajat Neogy, 1961Transition was founded in Uganda in 1961, a time of seemingly infinite possibility. Kampala, the magazine’s home, was a cosmopolitan city with a literary community that included Chinua Achebe, V...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: “I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people will ever know and understand themselves.” —James Weldon Johnson, 1912“Whiteness” has become a critical keyword lately, as writers turn an eye to the last great preserve of identity politics—the unnamed, the unacknowledged, ethnicity of the white majority...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Discusses the issues of race and color-conscious policies

Product Description: Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone, as well as mural painting, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles provide stunning proof that although these works were not made to be "art," they can be enjoyed by Western viewers purely on their aesthetic merits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This collection of new essays, by scholars from many different intellectual perspectives and ethnic backgrounds, explores practical as well as theoretical aspects of racism and sexism while probing the connections and differences between them...read more

Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

Product Description: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies...read more

A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed