Achievement engenders pride, and the most significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered i...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America
Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, fr...
Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American S...
Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events t...
Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West
Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoen...
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the upris...
Word: For Everybody Who Thought Christianity Was for Suckas
Mitchell, hip-hop veteran and radio producer, turned to Christianity when "the expensive toys, the fly gear and the expensive girlfri...
Authentic Recipes from Jamaica
Jamaica is the mountainous Caribbean island famed for its coffee and its beaches. But with its abundance of homegrown ingredients and its ...
Monday, April 28, 2014
Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History
The emergence of a sophisticated antislavery ideology and the rise of organized opposition to slavery in the Atlantic World in the eightee...
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing hone...
Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture
From the Apollo Theater to the Harlem Renaissance, from barber shop and beauty shop culture to African American holidays, family reunion...
African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence
This title offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives and through a lively range of rhetoric sty...
The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults by C. L. R. James
After more than a decade in the United States, the Caribbean writer C. L. R. James ran afoul of McCarthyism in 1953 and was deported. In e...
A New Notion: Two Works by C. L. R. James: Every Cook Can Govern and The Invading Socialist Society by C. L. R. James
Portraying C. L. R. James as a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies and in the black and working-class movements...
Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin by C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James is one of the leading Marxist interpreters of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century. Famous for his lite...
Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb
Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book - t...
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim ...
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, r...
Friday, April 25, 2014
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and arti...
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
While Thomas Jefferson lived with the contradiction of slave ownership and the ideals of liberty, his cousin Richard Randolph could not re...
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Black Stats—a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans—is an essential reference for anyone att...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry
In this insightful and provocative volume, Ramey reveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This b...
African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition?
African American Views of the Japanese reveals a page of history long ignored. In black America, Japanese were not always known for racist...
African American Pioneers of Baseball: A Biographical Encyclopedia
When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league's policies o...
Eleanor Holmes Norton
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS profiles the African-American men and women whose lives and work have changed the way we view race in America. Fr...
Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion
Does God want us to be wealthy? Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in t...
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...
L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst int...
African-American Proverbs in Context
From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. Such sayings as "Hard times make a...
The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh p...
Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people acr...
On the Line by Serena Williams
One of the biggest stars in tennis, Serena Williams has captured every major title. Her 2009 Australia Open championship earned her the #1...
Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography by Usain Bolt
The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on ...
Folk-Lore Journal edited by the Working Committee of the South African Folk-Lore Society
Folklore Journal, South Africa by arasmas
Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales by Sanni Metalerkamp
South African Folklore Tales by melissaofficinalis
African Religious Traditions
Central Africa
Colonialism
Congo
fiction
Imperialism
mythology
racism
Tourism Economy and Africa
Violence
Secrets of the Congo: Flying into the Heart of Darkness by Michael Fredholm von Essen
Cha0387 - Secrets of the Congo by Charlie360430
Central Africa
Congo
East Africa
Ghana
Imperialism
Language
Mali
North Africa
Senegal
South Africa
swahili
Tanzania
Urban/City Life
West Africa
The Languages of Urban Africa by Fiona McLaughlin
The Languages of Urban Africa.pdf by hehekyi
Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual
A masterful biography of a key figure in twentieth-century African American history"Logan (1897-1982), the subject of this superb bio...
The Little Capoeira Book, Revised Edition
Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
How To Date A Black Woman Without Beating Her Black Ass
This dynamic volume teaches black men how to handle today's black woman. This book also contains an additional feature book!
The Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya
In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic...
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