Religion and AIDS in Africa

The African AIDS epidemic has sparked fierce debate over the role of religion. Some scholars and activists argue that religion is contribu...

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Africana Womanism - Reclaiming Ourselves

AFRICANA WOMANISM: RECLAIMING OURSELVES poses new challenges for the feminist movement. In fact, in the words of Delores P. Aldridge, it i...

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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation: From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans

This comparative and historical study focuses on religious aspects of disease etiologies among five, systematically selected, African peo...

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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture

A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the...

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he ha...

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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links 1st Edition

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Dra...

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Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity (Routledge African Studies)

Offering a kind of "academic post-mortem," this volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various ...

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Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

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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 ...

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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...

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Africa Emerges

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growt...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black DiasporicIdentity

Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary inc...

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African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival,and Citizenship

“Brilliant. Alexander helps us to understand the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, migration, and identity as they intersect with c...

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The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian LiteraryDiscourses of Contention

“Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belongin...

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Afro-Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales ofTransnational Movements in Racialized Space

Born of the union between African maroons and the Island Carib on colonial St. Vincent, and later exiled to Honduras, the Garifuna way of ...

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From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and PanAmericanism, 1870-1964

"A remarkable new analysis of how African Americans and Haitians interacted over the long term. It asserts bold new methods and conc...

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