2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral, revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the ind...
Monday, March 30, 2015
A Plea for British Black Theologies, Volume 1
Since the Second World War more than 1.000 Black independent congregations in around 300 different organizations have sprung up all over B...
African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines
This text explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from scholars and scholar activists committed to ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in Ameri...
African Americans in the Civil War : Untold History of the Civil War
Black soldiers' combat experiences fighting in the Union and Confederate Armies were at times vastly different from those of their whi...
Egyptian Medicine
Mummified bodies, medical papyri and numerous paintings and reliefs provide ample evidence for this introduction to disease and its treatm...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent
Although there are numerous technical-scientific books on breast cancer in the global bibliography, such books deal exclusively with the n...
Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out
Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Br...
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, ...
New Visions of Collective Achievement: The Cross-Generational Schooling Experiences of African American Males
New Visions of Collective Achievement: The Cross-Generational Schooling Experiences of African American Males takes you on a journey into ...
African Women Immigrants in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders
African Women Immigrants in the United States depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing ...
African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises
This is an in-depth look at the biomedical, socio-cultural, economic, legal and political, and educational vulnerabilities faced by the po...
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 19...
The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
While many historically significant or interesting plays by white playwrights are easily found in anthologies, few by early African Americ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing
Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu....
African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent
This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa...
99 Problems: Superstars Have Bad Days, Too
Poor Superstar. All the money and fame in the world won’t prevent him from having a bad hair day. Or stepping in gum. Or not being able to...
Monday, March 23, 2015
Shout Because You're Free
The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the pu...
Haiti, History, and the Gods
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history b...
Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta brace...
Thursday, March 19, 2015
How Black and Working Class Children Are Deprived of Basic Education in Canada
This book is the culmination of twenty-four years of research. It explores the thematic intersections of race, class, immigration, and the...
Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of ...
From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an infl...
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Apartheid was an oppressive and brutal system of racial discrimination that captured and appalled world opinion during the latter half of ...
The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa
On July 11, 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heav...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Tuskegee Airmen - Black Heroes of World War II
Harris recounts the story of African American aviators who fought against prejudice in the U.S. in order to become fighter pilots during W...
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the “Negro question” that defined so much of his intellectual life ...
Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Bla...
Booker T. Washington and the Adult Education Movement
Born into slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington overcame staggering obstacles to lead emancipated blacks into a quiet revolution against i...
Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward E. Baptist reveals the alarming extent to which slavery shaped our country politically, ...
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Caribbean Herbs for Diabetes Management: Fact or Fiction?
In the Caribbean, diabetes is ranked as the second leading cause of death. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that over 366 m...
Friday, March 13, 2015
One-Eyed Baz: The True Story of Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Most Fearsome Hard Men
Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, his tormentors called him 'One Eye' or 'Cyclops'; it could have instilled a vi...
I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down by Jennifer Hudson
Exciting, inspirational, and honest, I Got This is Jennifer’s journey from a girl growing up on Chicago’s South Side to performing on the ...
Jailhouse Strong
Tired of all the latest exercise “advancements” delivering no results? For less than the cost of a day pass to any trendy chain gym, you c...
Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 Inches 2 Sizes
Ian K. Smith, M.D., #1 bestselling author and diet guru, has created a revolutionary 6-week plan that combines meal spacing, snacking, mea...
Super Shred: The Big Results Diet: 4 Weeks, 20 Pounds, Lose It Faster!
The diet that works faster and forever! SUPER SHRED Using the same principles—meal spacing, snacking, meal replacement and diet confusi...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th Century
American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race & Gender in the 20th Century profiles this woman who faced tremendous challenges as a fem...
Jamaican Recipes Cookbook: Over 50 Most Treasured Jamaican Cuisine Cooking Recipes
Jamaican cooking offers the best of both worlds — tasty foods and easy to prepare meals. This Jamaican recipe cookbook is a must-have for ...
Shred in 30 Minutes - The Expert Guide to Ian K. Smith's Critically Acclaimed Book
Shred ...in 30 Minutes is your guide to quickly understanding the dramatic weight-loss plan outlined in Dr. Ian K. Smith's best-sellin...
The Shred Diet Cookbook
Can I eat that on SHRED? Hundreds of thousands have lost extraordinary amounts of weight on Dr. Ian Smith's SHRED programs, using his...
Saturday, March 7, 2015
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's Western Experience
The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itse...
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