Originally published in 1961, this study of the religion of Southern Sudan's Dinka people is now considered a minor classic of social ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance
Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irr...
Sunday, April 26, 2015
School Desegregation: Oral Histories toward Understanding the Effects of White Domination
This book is written for the Millennial Generation to educate them about what school desegregation was actually about-the struggle over wh...
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It i...
Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars
Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santer...
Moorish: Flavours from Mecca to Marrakech
Greg and Lucy Malouf have compiled this collection of mouthwatering recipes inspired by the exciting flavors of North Africa, Spain, the E...
Friday, April 24, 2015
Slave Revolts (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900)
Since the days of antiquity, people have been forced into servitude because of differences in gender, race, class, religion, or level of p...
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigratio...
Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture
Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture goes beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cin...
Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council
Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council gives a comprehensive account of the National Afro-American Co...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
In perhaps his most provocative book Eugene Genovese examines the slave revolts of the New World and places them in the context of moder...
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
A child of slaves, Harry Haywood became a pioneer theorist of Black Power and a leader of the communist movement in the thirties. Black Bo...
"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masc...
Black Lies, White Lies
PBS television commentator and syndicated radio talk-show host Tony Brown has been called an "out-of-the-box thinker" and, les...
All Hell Broke Loose: American Race Riots from the Progressive Era through World War II
While racially motivated riot violence certainly existed in the United States both before and after the Progressive Era through World War ...
Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - k...
Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing
Typically, more than half the top rap songs in the country are the work of Southern artists. In a world still stuck in the East/West coast...
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial differ...
Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement
Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine...
Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester
Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and co...
Low Fat Recipes: 101 Incredible Quick & Easy Recipes for a Low Fat Diet
This book from start to finish has everything you need to life a healthy lifestyle with amazing sense of food. It is very gentle recipes ...
Monday, April 20, 2015
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen c...
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
Recounts the author's experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s, and desc...
Grow Herbs at Home: A Guide To Indoor & Backyard Culinary & Medicinal Herb Gardening for Beginners
You’re about to discover how to plan for and grow your herb garden full of culinary and medicinal herbs. Have you always dreamed of having...
Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas
In Black Victory, Darlene Clark Hine examines a pivotal breakthrough in the struggle for black liberation through the voting process. She ...
Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada
Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 199...
Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black
The editors recognized an absence of African American voices in adolescent psychology. So they set out to collect autobiographical essays ...
Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971
This publication documents the work of pioneering ballet pedagogue Marion D. Cuyjet and presents a historical and descriptive study of her...
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia
In this study, Peter Fry describes and analyses spirit-mediumship amongst a community of Zezuru people living near Salisbury in Southern R...
You Gotta Deal with It: Black Family Relations in a Southern Community
An account of a Black anthropologist's year of fieldwork in a Southern community offers in-depth analyses which reveal a South untouch...
Saturday, April 18, 2015
i can: the origin of Afr-i-can Amer-i-can
Few people know the true origin of the term African American as it is used today. Jessie Jackson, Ramona Edelin and others have been credi...
The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe
On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe fr...
Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family
Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal...
Current Perspectives on the Archaeology of African Slavery in Latin America
This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin Ame...
The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence, Michael O. ...
Friday, April 17, 2015
Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past d...
African American Slang: A Linguistic Description
In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect of African American Engli...
Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba
Spaces set apart by religious practitioners to represent their understanding of the sacredness of their world provide useful windows into ...
People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary
The Underground Railroad was perhaps the best example in U.S. history of blacks and whites working together for the common good. People of...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, a...
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