{"product_id":"black-ghost-of-empire-the-long-death-of-slavery-and-the-failure-of-emancipation-paperback","title":"Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKris Manjapra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this \"historical, literary masterpiece\" (Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system--instead of obliterating it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe and reveals that their perceived failures were not failures at all, but the predictable outcomes of policies designed first and foremost to preserve the status quo of racial oppression. In the process, Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Ghost of Empire \u003c\/i\u003ewill rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of contemporary society, this book shines a light into the gap between the idea of slavery's end and the reality of its continuation--exposing to whom a debt was paid and to whom a debt is owed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKris Manjapra was born in the Caribbean of mixed African and Indian parentage. He grew up in Canada and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard. He has lived in the USA ever since. He is a professor of history at Tufts University, and a recipient of the 2015 Emerging Scholar Award by \u003ci\u003eDiverse \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. He has held fellowships at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and at UCLA. The author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Ghost of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, he has also written \u003ci\u003eColonialism in Global Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAge of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM.N. Roy: Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan Thought Zones of South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.25 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978543071533,"sku":"9781982123499","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/UjVnbWplWmdYS0I1NTM4d2QyNzIxZz09.webp?v=1775805723","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/black-ghost-of-empire-the-long-death-of-slavery-and-the-failure-of-emancipation-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}