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African Studies: Books & eBooks

Gateway to research resources for Africa

Selected Faculty eBooks

Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine
book cover: The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
book cover: Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa
book cover: Africa After Gender?
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice
book cover: Ghana's Concert Party Theatre
book cover: Saltwater Slavery : A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
book cover: Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
book cover: Family Secrets: Risking Reproduction in Central Mozambique
Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
book cover: The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
book cover: The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
book cover: Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism
book cover: Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
book cover: Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
book cover: Music from Behind the Bridge: Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago
book cover: Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
book cover: Starring Mandela and Cosby : Media and the End(s) of Apartheid
book cover: The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector
book cover: Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya

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eBook Collections

Additional collections of eBooks can be found on eBook Collections guide. 

Finding Books Beyond the UW

If you can't find the books you need at the UW or through our Summit partner libraries (Summit material can be found in UW Libraries Search), use the following catalogs. Books not available at the UW can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.