A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing mem...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy ...
Monday, September 28, 2015
Religion and Hip Hop
From Don Imus's "nappy headed-ho's" and default public scapegoating of Hip Hop culture to the burial of the "N&quo...
White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed forladies & gentlemen of colour: William Brown's African & American theater
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side...
Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898
A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was the first black American to receive a degree from Camb...
Sunday, September 27, 2015
American Warlord: A True Story
Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the a...
Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832-1912
Edward Wilmot Blyden, widely known as the father of Pan-Africanism, was born on August 3, 1832 in Saint Thomas, in what are now the U.S V...
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlant...
Shaka Zulu (Hero Journals)
What was life like as leader of the Zulu Kingdom in Africa? Why not let Shaka Zulu tell you about it? Youll read about his triumphant vic...
Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play ofTransformation
A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is...
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...
Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent
This remarkable biography, based on much new information, examines the life and times of one of the most prominent African-American intel...
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry WhiteMale
In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son , activist Tim Wise examines the way in w...
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who...
Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Developmentin Neoliberal Kenya
These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter...
Malcolm X. Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader
More than a string of fact and dates, the Essential Lives series reveals the influences that shaped each individual and how, in turn, ea...
Malcolm Little. The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, th...
Autobiography/Biography
black history
Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow
nation of islam
Politics
racism
religion
Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives onMalcolm and Martin
Professors Baldwin and Al-Hadid, at Vanderbilt and Tennessee State Universities respectively, persuasively argue that El-Hajj Malik El-Sh...
The Political Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
This work contributes to the fields of political science, sociology, development, economics, and international relations to furnish an un...
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression...
Autobiography/Biography
black history
Black Nationalism
Black Panther Party
Black Power
black women
women
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent...
A Time to Break Silence. The King Legacy Series, Book 10
A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across...
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Lu...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic ofWhite Vulnerability
A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in thePlantation South
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work a...
Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, NewYork
In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called W...
African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA,1905-1945
The middle class black women who people Judith Weisenfeld’s history were committed both to social action and to institutional expressio...
The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago,1900-1967
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth cent...
The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950
This study of Boston’s West Indian immigrants examines the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from t...
The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the OceanHill-Brownsville Crisis
The review below shows the passion this episode created and can still evoke. To argue that Nauman wasn't "fired" is rather ...
Sir Arthur Lewis: A Biography
Sir Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) was the first person to answer these questions in a systematic way. But he was much more than this; he was...
Sunday, September 20, 2015
The Legacy of Egypt (Legacy Series)
This completely revised edition of a classic study of ancient Egypt takes full account of recent scholarly work. Tracing the values and ac...
Abusir: Realm of Osiris
At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after...
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishmen...
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II tothe Civil Rights Era
This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World Wa...
The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During theCivil War
Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Int...
Friday, September 18, 2015
The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus: Narratives of the Migrational Journey toIsrael, 1977-1985
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...
Handbook of West African Art
This handbook was originally assembled as a catalogue for use with a special exhibit of West African art shown at the Milwaukee Public Mus...
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community,1884-1960
This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimatio...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
In September 1937, three years before his death, Marcus Garvey assembled a small group of his most trusted organizers. For almost a quart...
Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal CoachingOpportunity in the NFL
Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African ...
Black Puerto Rican Identity and Religious Experience
Loiza is a Puerto Rican town known for best representing the African traditions, a community of a mostly black population affected by pr...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
African Art: The Years Since 1920
A survey of the art forms and styles that have evolved in modern Africa. Download Link
Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the GreatMigration
Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North an...
Africa's Living Arts
Describes the clothing, personal ornaments, household goods, religious and ceremonial objects, hunting implements, and other items of anc...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at aBahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, a...
George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life
Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Hen...
Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction
May has written the first book to really situate Cooper as a radical intellectual. She elucidates not only Cooper's brilliant criti...
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