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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom
Waldo Martin
2016

By Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin - This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police...

Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography

2019

Corey M. Abramson - The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered together several experts in field research to address these issues by showing how practitioners employing contemporary iterations of ethnographic...

The End Game: How Inequality Shapes our Final Years

Corey M. Abramson
2017

Corey Abramson - Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates whether persistent socioeconomic, racial, and gender divisions in America create inequalities that structure the lives of the elderly.

Corey Abramson’s portraits of seniors from diverse backgrounds offer...

20 Questions & Answers on Black Europe

Stephen Small
2017

By Stephen Small - Europe is made up of at least 46 nations, and a population of more than 770 million people. Black people of African descent are estimated at more than 7 million, with at least 90% of them in just 12 nations. Stephen Small offers an in-depth analysis of what exactly is Black Europe, and what are the experiences of Black people in Europe. He defines Black Europe and addresses questions about gender and demography; about history and the legacies of slavery, colonialism and imperialism; the politics of racism, political representation and community...

20 Questions and Answers on Dutch Slavery and its Legacy

Stephen Small
Sandew Hira
2015

By Stephen Small and Sandew HiraMost people in the Netherlands think of slavery and the slave trade as something that happened a long time ago, did not affect many people, and have little relevance to Dutch society today. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that politics, economics, religion, architecture and art in Amsterdam, Middelburg and other cities across the nation are inseparable and inextricable from Dutch slavery and the slave trade. This book details the history and legacy of Dutch slavery and the slave trade in the form of 20 questions...

New Perspectives on Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean

Stephen Small
2012

Stephen Small - This reader consists of 11 articles that focus on slavery and the legacy of slavery in Suriname and the Caribbean. Analysis of slavery in the Caribbean, including variations in the nature, functioning and legacies of slavery across territories with different imperial masters – including the English, Spanish and French – has a long history and has produced a very substantial literature. There is far less work on the Dutch Caribbean, including Suriname. This reader makes a contribution to increasing our attention on the Dutch Caribbean, as well as its...

Black Liverpool. 'The real thing': West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century

Stephen Small
2026

By Stephen Small (Liverpool University Press, 2026): This book describes the Black community in Liverpool and the arrival, embrace and transformation of waves of transnational Black culture from Africa, the West Indies and the United States in the final three decades of the twentieth century. Transnational cultural influences were spread via the media, brought first-hand by visitors to Liverpool, and through Liverpool residents who travelled internationally.

Liverpool’s Black community was...

Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies Decolonial Love, Knowledge, and Revolution

Jocyl Sacramento
2026

Edited By Carlos Manuel Salomon, Jocyl Sacramento, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, ...

Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England in the 1980's

Stephen Small
1994

Stephen Small- A systematic comparison of key differences and similarities in the experience of black people in the US and England amidst racial hostility. Small argues for an approach to combatting this built on shared racial identities.

Black Europe and the African Diaspora

Stephen Small
Trica Danielle Keaton
Darlene Clark Hine
2009

Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Trica Danielle Keaton, and Stephen Small - The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes,...