The full sweep of African American history in three accessible volumes This three-volume contribution to the Magill's Choice series o...
Monday, June 29, 2015
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights moveme...
Civil War (African-American History)
Analyzes the impact of the Civil War on African Americans, discussing the division between free states and slave states, the Emancipation ...
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination inAfrica provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamicprocesses of state-m...
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a ...
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System
When most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs. Few people think of gangs as sophisticated o...
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wi...
Civil Rights Movement (African-American History)
Traces the history of the civil rights movement, discussing key figures and significant events in the fight for equal rights.
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century i...
Friday, June 26, 2015
Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa’s biggest nation and worried t...
Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Power Playbook: Rules for Independence, Money and Success
The Power Playbook is the empowering guide to forging professional success, establishing financial independence, and finding balance for a...
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty ye...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation
In African-American Servitude & Historical Imaginings Margaret Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African-American presence...
Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
In four sections—Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return—the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly,...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Africa and World War II
This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research an...
American Black History
''American Black History'' is a concise yet thorough treatment of 500 years of African American history from its origins i...
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Slavery Throughout History Reference Library: Almanac
Two of a proposed three-volume set (a primary sources volume will appear later), the Almanac and Biographies share almost identical time-...
An Official Report of The Trials of Sundry Negroes, Charged With An Attempt to Raise An Insurrection in The State of South-Carolina(Denmark Vesey)
An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South-Carolina : prec...
Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Statesman
Voices for Freedom Abolitionist Heroes is a series of biographies portraying a generation of true American heroes. Their vision, words, a...
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Essential Underground Handbook (P M L Publishing)
The Essential Underground Handbook is a guide to some of the most essential information and techniques for those people who no longer want...
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapte...
Omar Al-Bashir and Africa's Longest War
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa’s and arguably Arabia’s most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of...
How to Make Disposable Silencers
This book contains old but useful information for the beginner. it will teach you the basics of silencer design so that you will be able t...
21 Techniques Of Silent Killing
21 Techniques of Silent Killing outlines methods trained assassins use to execute their victims with cold efficiency. Learn how the spike,...
Homemade Guns And Homemade Ammo
How many homemade gun books have you read, only to discover that to make the thing work you needed a metal lathe or a milling machine? Thi...
Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office
Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African Americ...
Behind the News: Race and Crime
Go behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Race and Crime...
Shaft #4
John Shaft is a ticking time bomb of vengeance waiting to explode. Before the killing starts, however, he wants answers. Consumed by rage,...
Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane c...
The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir
While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris dis...
Black Jesus Volume 1
Black Jesus is a story about being born different and society's perception and reaction to that. It was created and conceptualized by ...
Hip Hop Family Tree Three-in-On - Featuring Cosplayers
Featuring Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree series and Dash Shaw's Cosplayers! Piskor's half features excerpts from all three ...
Friday, June 19, 2015
The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa
"For as long as I can remember, I've had Africa on my mind." Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson may be best known for his ...
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Shaft #6
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Created by author Ernest Tidyman, and made famous i...
Shaft #5
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Created by author Ernest Tidyman, and made famous i...
Shaft #2
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Created by author Ernest Tidyman, and made famous i...
Shaft #3
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Created by author Ernest Tidyman, and made famous i...
Shaft #1
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? Shaft! Created by author Ernest Tidyman, and made famous i...
Monday, June 15, 2015
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye capture...
Fighting for Africa: The Pan-African Contributions of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson and Bill Sutherland
Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from coloni...
Class Struggle In Africa by Kwame Nkrumah
Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. T...
Benson: The Autobiography
Over the span of his illustrious five-decade career, George Benson has sold millions of records, performed for hundreds of millions of fan...
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological deve...
Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the h...
Awesome African-American Rock and Soul Musicians
Author David Aretha explores the lives of nine influential musicians in AWESOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROCK AND SOUL MUSICIANS. From Chuck Berry...
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Dying to Tell: Angola, Crime, Consequence, Conclusion at Louisiana State Penitentiary
Dying to Tell: Angola, Crime, Consequence, Conclusion at Louisiana State Penitentiary
Herero Heroes: Socio-Political History Of Herero Of Namibia,
The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society. Yet Herero society reemerged, reorganizing itself around the structures an...
Mukwahepo. Women Soldier Mother
In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventua...
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senega...
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
This authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivaled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Ta...
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