The Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiograph...
Friday, October 30, 2015
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass...
Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest
Home to some of the most remarkable feats of engineering as well as awe-inspiring natural vistas, ancient Egypt was a land of great promi...
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...
African History
african holocaust
Autobiography/Biography
Caribbean
Haitian Revolution
racism
slavery
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there name...
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many ...
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific...
Thursday, October 29, 2015
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortres...
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global econ...
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
A hands-on, practical survival guide from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson—adapted for civilians from actual special forces operations—to ...
A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture
On view are 45 sculptures in an exhibition that explores and illustrates the traditional use of the human image in the art of the Mali...
Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of c...
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thous...
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvan...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
The Culture of Aids in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence ...
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Hardcover reprint of the original 1788 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No a...
Africa Emerges
Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growt...
Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library
Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among sc...
The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution
During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build ...
Egyptian Mythology A to Z
Egypt's myths are among the earliest in the ancient world. "Egyptian Mythology A to Z, Revised Edition" brings to life the f...
The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus
The story of a mysterious southern Illinois treasure cave and its proof of the presence of Africans in North America long before Columbus...
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black his...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The Brazilian Table
BRAZIL - EXOTIC, SENSUAL, MYSTERIOUS - mingles pleasure with high energy, and its cuisine is no different. The recipes of The Brazilian Ta...
Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer
No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil’s people, politicians, and poets have fou...
The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves a...
Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda
Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing ground...
Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration Narrative
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in...
Sunday, October 25, 2015
George Washington Carver: In His Own Words
A black man praised by white America-George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an anomaly in his own time. Now available in paperback, this...
Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religion
Academic analyses of religious phenomena have often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies and prioritized the understanding of reli...
The People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from theCivil Rights Era to Today
Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths stories as he travels, tastes, and talks his way through 20 of Americ...
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive h...
Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past andFuture
Scientific confirmation of advanced civilization at the end of the last ice age, the solar catastrophe that destroyed it, and what the ev...
Chapman-Andrews and The Emperor
Based on Chapman-Andrew's diary, the core of the book describes the extraordinary SOE operation in 1940 to re-instate the Emperor on ...
Saturday, October 24, 2015
The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple ofthe Sun
Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest site...
Teff Love: Adventures in Vegan Ethiopian Cooking
Why wait for a trip to your favorite Ethiopian restaurant? Import the delicious flavors of Ethiopia right to your own kitchen! Kittee Ber...
The Kemetic Diet: Ancient African Wisdom for Health of Mind Body and Spirit
FASTING Health issues have always been important to human beings since the beginning of time. The earliest records of history show that th...
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...
Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British AtlanticWorld
As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Am...
African Diaspora
African History
african holocaust
black history
Caribbean
Politics
racism
spirituality
The New African Diaspora
The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibl...
Friday, October 23, 2015
Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death
This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egypti...
The Art of Egypt: The Time of the Pharaohs
Ancient Egyptian culture is one of the oldest & most magnificent of humankind. For a long while, the glories of ancient Egypt weren&#...
The Akhenaten Colossi of Karnak
Some of the fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of...
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Living in a landscape of scarcity: Materiality and cosmology in WestAfrica
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederat...
When the Children Marched. The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Referred to as the "most segregated city in America," Birmingham, Alabama, became a hotbed for civil rights activity in the ear...
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered sla...
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle
Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this v...
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