This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Diana Ross: A Biography
There is only one Diana Ross. This is her story. Drawn from hundreds of interviews conducted over four decades, Diana Ross paints an unf...
Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the s...
Black Entrepreneurs in America: Stories of Struggle and Success
Beginning with a summary of 200 years of entrepreneurship among African Americans, then moving to in-depth interviews with contemporary en...
When God Was a Woman
Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in pa...
Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context
J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological st...
Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City
On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have alread...
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women's History
Stories from the Amazing journey of African American Women "Whether read as history or practical inspiration, the stories of bravery...
Cookin' Crunk: Eating Vegan in the Dirty South
“Crunk” is a Southern slang term that means “to get excited.” Keepin' it real and makin' it fun, vegan blogger Bianca Phillips ado...
To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, ...
Friday, May 22, 2015
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story
In 1989, the rape and beating of a white female jogger in Central Park made international headlines. Many accounts reported the incident a...
From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America
Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reduc...
Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies
The provocative debate about Malcolm X’s legacy that emerged after the publication of Manning Marable’s 2011 biography raised critical que...
Monday, May 18, 2015
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation
There are two types of rituals performed by the same people in a rural community in Southern Ethiopia. One appears to be remarkably stable...
Race, Incarceration, and American Values
The United States, home to five percent of the worlds' population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. O...
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen, a compilation of texts, testi...
The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000
Ethiopians form the third largest post-1960 African immigrant in the U.S. Over the years, their migratory patterns have changed in respons...
The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Journey
Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the lan...
The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a specia...
The Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1987: A Transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian Autocracy
This book is the most comprehensive account of the Ethiopian revolution currently available, dealing with almost the entire span of the re...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to ...
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World
What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples’ movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why?...
To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada
In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight ...
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of the...
The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania
In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. T...
Everyday Easy
The international culinary superstar and author of A Lighter Way to Bake returns with a bright and breezy full-color cookbook that feature...
Black Rage Confronts the Law
In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with a...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions
From Compton to Cairo and Bahia to Brixton, black women have been disproportionally affected by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, discrim...
Friday, May 8, 2015
The Black Power Movement (African-American History)
Gr 4-6-There are some admirable qualities to these titles-use of primary source documents, follow-up questions, and "Stop and Think&q...
Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership
Despite the hopes of the civil rights movement, researchers have found that the election of African Americans to office has not greatly im...
Black Colleges: New Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the...
Arise Ye Starvelings: The Jamaican Labour Rebellion of 1938 and its Aftermath
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Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South
The opportunity for slaves to produce goods, for their own use or for sale, facilitated the development of a domestic economy largely inde...
Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography
Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans...
Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention...
Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of V...
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...
Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and cu...
Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South
On July 8, 1860, fire destroyed the entire business section of Dallas, Texas. At about the same time, two other fires damaged towns near D...
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling
Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around the globe. For all its length-the fig...
I'm Black and I'm Sober: The Timeless Story Of A Woman's Journey Back To Sanity
This is the first autobiography written by a recovering African American woman. The author discusses the impact of discrimination and the ...
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