Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern A...
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of ...
African Women: A Modern History
Over the last century, the social and economic roles played by African women have evolved dramatically. Long confined to home and field, o...
Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the ac...
Beyond Small Numbers, Volume 4: Voices of African American PhD Chemists
The book provides significant insight into the factors that affect the careers of these scientists and, importantly, gives voice to the ma...
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, ...
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African American Troops in World War II
Osprey's study of the African Americans' involvement in World War II (1939-1945). Despite the contribution of black units to the A...
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook
In the last fifty years, American and World theatre has been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African ...
African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
Like pioneers in any field, these women were more than just chemical researchers or educators; they were true "Renaissance women,&quo...
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Modern African Wars (4): The Congo 1960-2002
From Belgian and French paratroops to Che Guevara and CIA funded Cuban B-26 pilots, the Congo has been a hotbed of African conflict in the...
African American Communication: Exploring Identity and Culture
What communicative experiences are particular to African Americans? How do many African Americans define themselves culturally? How do the...
Art and Eternity: The Nefertari Wall Paintings Conservation Project 1986-1992
This is the final report on the conservation of the wall paintings in the tomb of Nefertari in the Valley of Queens, Egypt. This highly su...
African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late 19th Century to the Present
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume expl...
African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa
A key mechanism of apartheid in South Africa was the set of restrictions placed on the movements of Africans; in particular, African women...
African Americans and the Civil War
Students learn about the various parts that African Americans played in the Civil War. Includes photographs and illustrations, bibliograph...
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I
For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civili...
A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold ...
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression
As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon...
African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
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Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America
Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. W...
Colonial Genocide and Reparations Claims in the 21st Century: The Socio-Legal Context of Claims under International Law by the Herero against Germany for Genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908
More and more, the descendants of indigenous victims of genocide, land expropriation, forced labor, and other systematic human rights vi...
Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions traces the carnage of HIV/AIDS from its Ugandan epicentre in the villag...
The Harlem Hellfighters
New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and renowned filmmaker Bill Miles deftly tell the true story of the unsung American he...
To Advance their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Right Act of 1964
To Advance Their Opportunities chronicles the development of federal policies and programs impacting African American workers, examining t...
African American Urban History since World War II
Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with ...
African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes
Women burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like ...
Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
Two noted psychologists, who are parents themselves, share their wisdom in this indispensable book on raising African-American boys. With...
Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
Despite the intent of the Brown decision, racial politics since the landmark ruling have yielded so much resegregation of public schools a...
Saturday, March 29, 2014
The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldie...
Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade
Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research...
From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College
In 1842 Charles Lewis Cocke arrived in Roanoke, Virginia, with sixteen slaves; there, he founded Hollins College, an elite woman's sch...
The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community by Vivian Gunn Morris and Curtis L. Morris
In this compelling book, the authors put a human face on desegregation practices in the South. Focusing on an African American community i...
Social Workers Speak out on the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Voices from and to African American Communities
Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HI...
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1975-1981
This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-schoo...
The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
While he was still in his twenties, Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los A...
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the...
Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded...
Friday, March 28, 2014
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded—and thousands of fans witnessed—for...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associ...
Flames after Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community
What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a coworker's whispered words, "Kirve...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas
The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured int...
The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice
Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice.
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