In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discove...
Sunday, June 29, 2014
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pisto...
Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, thi...
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until on...
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Mining rich but rarely touched material, Piersen unearths a sustaining folk culture created from African values. Focusing on Rhode Island,...
The Book of American Negro Poetry
James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this work because it was his belief that a group...
The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s...
The Afro-American Novel & It's Tradition
Civil rights advances in the last 25 years have included an awareness that the traditional canon of American literature excluded important...
Friday, June 27, 2014
Black Leadership for Social Change
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice...
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims suc...
Strengthening the African American Educational Pipeline: Informing Research, Policy, and Practice
Focusing on pre-K-12 schools, higher education, and social influences, this book examines the following question: What systemic set of str...
African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction
A landmark introduction to the archaeology of Africa that challenges misconceptions & claims about Africa’s past and teaches students ...
Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring with Herbs
Hoodoo is an eclectic blend of African traditions, Native American herbalism, Judeo-Christian ritual, and magical healing. Tracing Hoodoo...
Conjure in African American Society
A history of black America's supernatural beliefs from the colonial era to the present From black sorcerers' client-based practice...
The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa
In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new...
How to Improve Self-Esteem In the African American Child
This book addresses some of the cultural influences that race and color of skin has had on the african American Child. [Ida_Greene]_How...
Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
The Decolonization of Africa
This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of twentieth-century world history...
Amulets and Magic
This remarkable work contains the original texts with translations and descriptions of a series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, C...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Space Challenger: The Story of Guion Bluford
Guion S. Bluford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1942. Bluford became the first African American to travel in spac...
The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940
The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of...
Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith
Enter most African American congregations and you are likely to see the century-old pattern of a predominantly female audience led by a ma...
Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and the South Atlantic
The complete Cambridge History of Africa was intended to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of historical development...
African Brew: Exploring the craft of South African Beer
From beer’s porridge-like beginnings through to the cutting edge craft beers being poured across the country today, African Brew tells the...
Muslim Societies in African History
This book examines a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from the Muslim societies of Africa ...
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860
Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the f...
Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism
In this provocative study Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of t...
Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop cul...
The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946
The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the rel...
Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature
In Honoring the Ancestors, Donald H. Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His ...
African Sculpture
A stunning collection of 164 photographic plates of African masks, votive figures, metalwork, carvings, with introduction. Ashanti, Yoruba...
Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress
Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have e...
The Dynamic Dance: Nonvocal Communication in African Great Apes
Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens amo...
Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry
From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers ...
A History of Theatre in Africa
Offering a comprehensive account of a long and varied chronicle, this history of theater in Africa is comprised of essays written by schol...
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Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (Music of the African Diaspora)
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse bla...
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable sag...
Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy
One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From...
Friday, June 20, 2014
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout...
The Jews of Ethiopia: The Birth of an Elite
This book offers the results of the most recent research carried out in European and Israeli universities on Ethiopian Jews. With a specia...
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Foods of Kenya (Taste of Culture)
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Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is...
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