Decolonizing African Agricultural History

Decolonizing African Agricultural History

6:43 AM

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. Howev...

6:39 AM

Maya Angelou (People in the News)

Presents the life and works of the author of ''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' and discusses her struggles as a woman, m...

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Major Taylor: The Inspiring Story of a Black Cyclist and the Men Who Helped Him Achieve Worldwide Fame

In the wake of the Tour de France’s fallen heroes, the story of one of history’s most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote. ...

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Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function o...

6:06 AM

A Short Walk in a Long Journey

A Short Walk in a Long Journey is a story about an American election observer’s experience in the 1994 South African election. This electi...

5:59 AM

African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto

In the last decade of the 20th century, during a time when African Americans were starting to take inventory of the gains of the civil rig...

5:57 AM

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played...

5:55 AM

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

"When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a poli...

5:52 AM

Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa by Moustafa Gadalla

A concise and comprehensive historical account of Egypt and sub-Sahara Africa for the last 3,000 years. Find out how the Islamic jihads fr...

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Egyptian Romany The Essence of Hispania by Moustafa Gadalla

Revisits the Iberian history for the last 6,000 years, and reveal the Ancient Egyptian roots of the Romany (Gypsies) and how they brought ...

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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

For four hundred years-from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacr...

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The Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. W...

9:24 AM

Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts

Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies...

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Supreme Mathematic African Ma'At Magic

The purpose of the book entitled "Supreme Mathematic, African Ma'at Magic" is to show that Mathematics is of African origin;...

9:17 AM

World of a Slave [2 volumes]: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States

Although many encyclopedias discuss slavery, enslaved blacks, and African American life and culture, none focus on the material world of s...

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Origin of the Semitic People by Cheikh Anta Diop

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African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice

How might ordinary people apply feminist principles to everyday situations? How do feminist ideas affect the daily behaviors and decisions...

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Democratization and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa: Problems and Prospects

Development was achieved in the West by capitalism and industrialization before liberal democracy was introduced as a viable form of gover...

6:06 AM

Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

Drawing on a wealth of primary documents and recent research, Daily Life in Colonial Latin America gives readers a genuine sense of ever...

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African Percussion: The Djembe

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Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial ...

5:58 AM

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, African American guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fa...

5:55 AM

Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990

In this important new study, Hutchinson examines in detail the American Communist party's largely unsuccessful effort to win the alleg...

6:41 AM

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa...

6:38 AM

Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak

Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identifie...

6:35 AM

The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

On 9th May 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him...

6:32 AM

Who We Are: Blacks

Who We Are: Blacks brings you the facts you need about the size and characteristics of this fast-growing and politically powerful minority...

6:30 AM

The Acid Reflux Solution: A Cookbook and Lifestyle Guide for Healing Heartburn Naturally

If you suffer from acid reflux, you’re not alone. More than 50 million Americans have GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, and while ...

6:27 AM

The Boondocks Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder

The Boondocks took the syndication world by storm. The notoriety landed Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder in publications ranging from Time...

6:25 AM

Where There Is No Doctor

Hesperian's classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is arguably the most widely-used health care manual in the world. This 2013 upd...

6:22 AM

Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for more than eleven years....

6:20 AM

Ring of Hate: Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling

The definitive book (The Ring) on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavyweight championship bout between Ge...

6:17 AM

Hip Hop Family Tree Two-in-One

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6:14 AM

Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

Lewis Gordon presents the first detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. B...

6:10 AM

Escape Betwixt Two Suns: A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois

Although the northern Illinois chapters of the story of Susan “Sukey” Richardson’s escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad are doc...

12:15 PM

The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives

In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise hav...

12:12 PM

African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of L...

12:09 PM

Fresh for '01 . . . You Suckas: The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder

The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple pre...

12:05 PM

The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time

In this clarion call, Paige, a former secretary of education (2001–2005) and his sister, a noted educator, pursue two threads of thought: ...

12:01 PM

Raising Black Students' Achievement Through Culturally Responsive Teaching

In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in-depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3 8 who managed to radically na...

11:56 AM

Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen

On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runawa...

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