In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed Sékou Touré to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, an...
Friday, October 31, 2014
Shakin' Up Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives
The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. I...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform...
Down Home Healthy Cooking: Recipes and Tips for Healthy Cooking
National Institutes for Health Publication 10-3408 Down Home Healthy Cooking: Recipes and Tips for Healthy Cooking address the concerns th...
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...
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
An examination of how six prominent African-American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world
Home Cooking Made Easy
TV chef Lorraine Pascale, author of the phenomenal bestseller Baking Made Easy, is back with her second cookery book – this time packed ...
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God's Wife, God's Servant: The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740-525 BC)
Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconog...
Rob Rainford's Born to Grill: Over 100 Recipes from My Backyard to Yours
Chef Rob Rainford takes grilling to a whole new level--with over 100 recipes and 20 complete menus, all designed for your backyard barbequ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi's Dark Past : A Memoir
In June of 1957, Governor James Coleman stepped before the cameras of "Meet the Press" and was asked whether the public schools ...
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Righ...
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossibl...
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The fi...
Come Out Smokin': Joe Frazier - The Champ Nobody Knew
With Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s death elevating his legend and his legacy, go back in time to read the first book ever to delve into the life o...
The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History
The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and profes...
Freshwater Road
When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer with the Civil Rights movement, she's assigned...
Monday, October 27, 2014
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Beyond a Boundary: 50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)
This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on spo...
Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N Roll
When Mos Def, platinum-selling New York-based rapper, decided to make a foray into rock 'n roll he called his band "Jack Johnson....
To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps o...
Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
The small but important region of Dahomey (now the People's Republic of Benin) has played an active role in the world economy througho...
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its ...
Black Soldiers of the Queen: The Natal Native Contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War
“Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battl...
Black Directors in Hollywood
Hollywood film directors are some of the world's most powerful storytellers, shaping the fantasies and aspirations of people around th...
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture: Contemporary Women's Writing of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora
Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.
Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry
Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts we...
Grant Fuhr: The Story of a Hockey Legend
The Hall of Fame story of Grant Fuhr, the first black superstar in the National Hockey League and the last line of defense for the Edmonto...
Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917
In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation a...
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
Doc is the autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene an...
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
African American Women's Rhetoric is a comprehensive study of the ways in which African American women in politics, education, busines...
Behavior Modification in Black Populations: Psychosocial Issues and Empirical Findings
During the past decade, research and practice in the field of behavior modification have experienced phenomenal growth. Behavioral inter ...
Black Populism in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography
In recent years the study of the Southern Populist movement at the turn of the century has flourished. Despite the significant new researc...
All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Spec...
The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950
Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books linin...
Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, J...
The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution
This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
In a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated A...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a you...
Grace, Gold, and Glory My Leap of Faith
In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner, as well as actin...
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, root...
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery eff...
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, 2nd Edition
In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest ...
Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics
This book interrogates the ideas and practices of the New Beacon Circle's activists as relatively stable elements in the fast-changing...
Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segr...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Backyard Farming: Growing Garlic: The Complete Guide to Planting, Growing, and Harvesting Garlic
Growing Garlic covers a broad range of important topics, including selecting the right variety of garlic for your wants and needs, storage...
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir
In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV’s reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes a...
The Whitney I Knew by Bebe Winans
In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watchi...
Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book exa...
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