The infamous boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on June 28, 1997, was like none other in the sport’s history, and this ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Osogbo: Speaking to the Spirits of Misfortune
By understanding osogbo, the spirits of misfortune, we can better overcome them and return to health and balance in our lives • Explains ...
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft won’t be necessary. . . . If nurses are needed so desperately, why isn’t the Army using co...
SanterÃa: Correcting the Myths and Uncovering the Realities of a Growing Religion
SanterÃa, also known as Yoruba, Lukumi, or Orisha, was originally brought to the Americas from Africa by enslaved peoples destined for the...
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
In Yoruba culture, morality and moral values are intimately linked to aesthetics. The purest expression of beauty, at least for human bein...
The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They r...
Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns
Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns [Abner_Cohen]_Custom_and_Politics_in_Urban_Africa_Bokos-Z1...
Yorùbá Yé Mi: A Beginning Yorùbá Textbook
Yorùbá Yé Mi is an interactive, communicative, introductory, multi-media program intended to provide college/university students with basi...
Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
At its rhythmic, beating heart, Close to the Edge asks whether hip hop can change the world. Hip hop—rapping, beat-making,b-boying, deejay...
Marley And Me: The Real Bob Marley Story
Since Bob Marley died in 1981, the myths and legends which surround his life have continued to grow. Only one man knows the truth. Marley...
Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation
Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation analyses the complex processes by which black people are treated differentially by the probation servi...
Sport, Racism and Ethnicity
Considers racism experienced by athletes in South Africa, the Caribbean, Canada and the USA as well as in Britain. The contributors examin...
The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welf...
Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: The Cultural Dimensions of Political Action
Aimed at academics and students of anthropology, race and ethnic studies, sociology and cultural studies, this volume examines the differe...
The Languages of Global Hip Hop
In the case of hip-hop, the forces of top-down corporatization and bottom-up globalization are inextricably woven. This volume takes the v...
George Washington Carver: A Biography
This insightful work chronicles the life of George Washington Carver, the renowned African American scientist and teacher. George Washin...
Monday, September 29, 2014
Jesse Owens: A Biography
In an era far removed from the African American celebrity athletes of today, Olympic great Jesse Owens achieved fame by running faster a...
The Notorious B.I.G.: A Biography
Over ten years since his death, Biggie Smalls, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., is considered one of the most influential rappers of al...
Jamaican Americans
From Colin Powell, the first African American to be appointed U.S. secretary of state in 2000, to former NBA star Patrick Ewing and Grammy...
Poverty and Perception in Jamaica: A Comparative Analysis of Jamaican Households
Poverty and Perception in Jamaica: A Comparative Analysis of Jamaican Households [Warren_A._Benfield]_Poverty_and_Perception_in_Jam_BookZ...
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. [John_D...
Friday, September 26, 2014
In Black and White: Race and Sports in America
From the days of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to the present when collegiate basketball factories entice and then fail to educate youn...
Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation
"Yet With a Steady Beat: Contemporary U. S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation" is a collection of essays written by Black bibl...
Slave Rebellions
Throughout the centuries of slavery, since the very first Africans came to the New World in the early 1500s, there was a will to rebel. Ma...
Looking For Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African-American Literature
Taking the incredible flowering of African-American literature in the 1920s as its starting point, Looking for Harlem offers a cogent and ...
A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hal...
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Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord (The History of African-American Religions)
"A brilliant and lively work that brings alive black Methodism in the late 19th century. This is an extremely important and original ...
Interpersonal Violence in the African-American Community: Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Practices
This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Ame...
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal w...
The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community
In this compelling book, the authors put a human face on desegregation practices in the South. Focusing on an African American community i...
GOING NORTH Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900 -1950
GOING NORTH Migration of Blacks and Whites from the South, 1900 -1950 [Neil_Fligstein_and_Peter_H._Rossi__Auth._]_Going__BookZZ.org_
Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America
Many blacks in the workplace face a set of dynamics unique to being African American in a traditionally white, male-dominated world. In th...
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone W...
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture an...
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique compa...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In th...
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes a new essay collection that tells the untold story behi...
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions in Southern History.
White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especiall...
Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. “Repatriation is a must!” the...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts
Thousands of texts discuss Egytpain cosmology and cosmogony. James Allen has selected sixteen to translate and discuss in order to shed li...
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