Diploma Thesis from the year 1992 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1, University of Amsterdam (Instituut voor Moderne Aziatische Geschiedenis), language: Dutch; …

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French coloni …

David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after …

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power …

China’s strong economic growth occurring alongside modernization across the great majority of Asian societies has created what many see as a transnational space through and by which not only economic …

When Americans think about race, ‘white’ is often the furthest thing from their minds. Yet whiteness colors so much of social life in the United States, from the organization and maintenance of socia …

Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, …

This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily o …

In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The ‘new second generation’ refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who h …

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pio …