Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understoo...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Changing Times for Black Professionals (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have alw...
Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture
Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook—an underground cultural institution created by the black w...
Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace
Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture grea...
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary &quo...
Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
In an era where people are often sorted into the categories of 'thinker' and 'doer', Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands ou...
The Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum
The Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin is one of the world's foremost museums of anthropology, and the art of Central Africa is only on...
You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide
Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and Afri...
The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains ...
The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and i...
Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali
Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties a...
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free,&q...
The 3-1-2-1 Diet: Eat and Cheat Your Way to Weight Loss--up to 10 Pounds in 21 Days
Want to finally lose the weight and keep it off? Want to be able to eat the foods you love? Reaching your goals can only happen when you ...
Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities
A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?...
The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British...
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