Examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness. Combining insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, this title considers how Afro-Bahian cultural groups, known as blocos afro, conceive of Africanness and blackness, and themselves in relation to both.

Study of DuBois's writings from the 1940s and 50s, focusing on his ideas about scientific research on race, war and miltarism, and the place of Africa in the world

The author of Ritalin Nation exposes the illogic underlying US. drug policy and our limited understanding of what drugs are and how they work

A broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries

Details the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaeton

The attempts by Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals to establish ties with Africa during and after decolonization reveal the contradictions in Brazil's idea of itself as a racial democracy

Analyzes how the US. victims' rights movement has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to the direct victims of violent crime

A cultural theorist and media designer issues a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies

Explores the historical or conceptual significance of craft in contemporary art

Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties

How small-scale coca growers came together to oppose an eradication campaign by the Colombain government

How intellectuals and policymakers in early 20th century Peru came to believe that industrialization and a modern workforce would transform Peru into a civilized nation

A bold intervention in debates about the role of theory in the humanities

Covers the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India , an expose written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. This book shows that this event became a catalyst for some far-reaching changes, including a reconfiguration of the relationship between the political and social spheres in colonial India.

Essays on violence in Guatemala City, one of the most dangerous cities in the world