Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
African Voices in Education
The Africanisation of education is a highly topical issue. The potentials and pitfalls of Africanisation have drawn a great deal of critic...
Sowing for others to reap; a collection of papers ... of the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
Sowing for others to reap a collection of papers of the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs This book, "Sowing for others to...
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families: An Introduction
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families is a historically and culturally centered text designed for relationship, marriage...
The Revolt of the Whip
This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inaug...
Somalia - The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women
Somalia came to the world's attention in 1992 when television and newspapers began to report on the terrifyingly violent war and the f...
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ro...
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture
West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Kei...
African American Girls: Reframing Perceptions and Changing Experiences
Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to conduct research and intervention programming with African American girls. Several o...
Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa
The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only...
The Global Circulation of African Fashion
Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, images and identities have played a vital role in creating an informal global network...
Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa
This authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast...
Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature
Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given cons...
Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Darwin's Athletes zeroes in on our society's fixation on black athletic achievement. John Hoberman compellingly argues that this o...
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows—chorus lines, burlesque r...
Monday, July 28, 2014
Family Caps, Abortion and Women of Color: Research Connection and Political Rejection
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or ...
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or...
A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in ...
African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
African regional trade integration has grown exponentially in the last decade. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal ...
June Jordan: Her Life and Letters
June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives. During her life, she became ...
The Florida Negro: A Federal Writers' Project Legacy
Published for the first time, the WPA documentary studies of black folklife in Florida. [Gary_W._McDonogh__Federal_Writers'_Project]_...
Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom
It is important that the school curriculae be representative of the diversity of the American student population. Integrating African Am...
The Real Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - ...
Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters
Writing and composing with honesty and humanism, Lucille Clifton is known for her themes of the body, family, community, politics, woman...
Where are All the Young Men and Women of Color?: Capacity Enhancement Practice in the Criminal Justice System
When it comes to social work practice in community outreach programs, in juvenile detention centres, in prisons, in parole and probation p...
The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871
This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionall...
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they re...
White News: Why Local News Programs Don't Cover People of Color
Is TV news racist? If the purpose of local news is to cover individual communities and to present issues of interest and concern to local ...
The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
From the acclaimed World War II writer and author of The Ghost Mountain Boys, an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won ...
The Freedom Summer Murders
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, this will be the first book for young adults to explore the harrowing...
Friday, July 25, 2014
Boys into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
In this first book of its kind, psychologists Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin and Dr. A. J. Franklin help African American families of all kinds f...
On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
The letters featured in this book were sent by Corporal James Henry Gooding, a member of Company C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. T...
Black Women in American Bands & Orchestras
The first edition of Black Women in American Bands & Orchestras (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1982) was lauded for providing ...
Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 150 works of sixteenth-to nineteenth-century Benin art with background on the history, art, and culture of Benin, and expert com...
Racism: A Short History
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteent...
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workab...
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, 2nd Edition
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hu...
Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora
Dub is the avant-garde verso of reggae, created by manipulating and reshaping recordings using studio strategies and techniques. While dub...
Gangs in the Caribbean
The present volume represents the first published book on gangs in the Caribbean. The study of criminal gangs is both timely and of the ut...
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Balancing Work and Life: The Nia Guide for Black Women
Second in a series of empowerment guides from NiaOnline.com, the web’s leading community site for black women. It’s a frank and personal g...
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