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    by Achille Mbembe
    £19.99 - 73.49

    Achille Mbembe theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world-one plagued by inequality, militarization, enmity, and a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces-and calls for a radical revision of humanism a the means to create a more just society.

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    - Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
    by Naminata Diabate
    £19.49 - 73.49

    Naminata Diabate explores how the deployment of defiant nakedness by mature women in Africa challenges longstanding assumptions about women's political agency.

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    - Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
    by Fadi A. Bardawil
    £20.99 - 73.49

    Fadi A. Bardawil explores the hopes for and disenchantments with Marxism-Leninism in the writings and actions of revolutionary intellectuals within the 1960s Arab New Left.

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    - Race, Capital, Feminism
    by Francoise Verges
    £19.49 - 68.49

    Francoise Verges examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Reunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

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    - A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
    by Lynn M. Thomas
    £22.49 - 76.99

    Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond, theorizing skin and skin color as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender hierarchies.

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    - Visa Lottery Chronicles
    by Charles Piot
    £18.49 - 73.49

    Charles Piot follows a visa broker-known as a "fixer"-in the West African nation of Togo as he helps his clients apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery program.

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    - Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
    by Ian Baucom
    £73.49

    Ian Baucom puts black studies into conversation with climate change, outlining how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene and vice versa.

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    - African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
    by Monica Popescu
    £20.99 - 73.49

    Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century, showing how the United States and the Soviet Union's efforts to further their geopolitical and ideological goals influenced literary practices and knowledge production on the African continent.

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    - Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
    by Noah Tamarkin
    £20.99 - 73.49

    Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.

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    - Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
    by Hagar Kotef
    £21.99 - 76.99

    Hagar Kotef explores the cultural, political, spatial, and theoretical mechanisms that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people's homes, showing how settler-colonial violence becomes inseparable from one's sense of self.

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    - Histories from the Global South
    by Prathama Banerjee
    £20.99 - 73.49

    Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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    - Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
    by Florence Bernault
    £20.99 - 76.99

    Florence Bernault retells the colonial and postcolonial history of present-day Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how colonialism shaped French and Gabonese obsessions about fetish, witchcraft, and organ trafficking for ritual murders.

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    - Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
    by Justin Izzo
    £19.49 - 73.49

    Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of making sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.

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    by AbdouMaliq Simone
    £21.49 - 68.49

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