This study of atheist African American writers poses a substantive challenge to those who see atheism in despairing and nihilistic terms. ...
Monday, August 31, 2015
The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World andPolitical Activism in the 1970s
The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Fr...
The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South
"A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known aspects of slavery to both scholars and students."--Ronald Traylor...
After Freedom Summer: How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965–1986
"A brilliant history of black politics and white resistance in post-civil rights era Mississippi. Danielson’s work helps to fill the ...
Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America
“This volume is long overdue, and at the cutting edge of scholarship. It is sure to become a standard reference.”—Jerome Branche, author ...
Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, BlackSoutherners, and College Campuses
Nowhere else can one read about how "Brown v. Board of Education" transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state...
Living Spirits With Fixed Abodes: The Masterpieces Exhibition Papua NewGuinea National Museum and Art Gallery
On the eve of Papua New Guinea's attainment of independence from Australia, Chief Minister Michael Somare referred to the new nation...
Ride, Red, Ride: The Life of Henry "Red" Allen (Bayou)
A biography of jazz trumpeter and singer Henry "Red" Allen exploring his place as Armstrong's chief rival. Both men were bor...
Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and theCaribbean
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the C...
The Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada inthe Hood
Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global...
The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters
For centuries, Psalm 68:31 "Princes shall come forth out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God," also ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015
The Complete Muhammad Ali
Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Al...
The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black PoliticalIntegration
After many years of neglect and misplaced criticism by contemporary activists, historians and the media, Berg restores the NAACP to its r...
Black American Money by Dr. Boyce Watkins
In this book, Dr. Boyce Watkins breaks down how black power can thrive in a capitalist society. In his standard down-to-earth style, Dr. W...
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum: Race, Class, and Gender in the South
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous—and under-examined—biracial murd...
Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria: Speaking a SacredWorld
How do SanterÃa practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them...
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 ...
A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's GeorgeWashington Murray
Born a slave in 1850s South Carolina and elected to Congress in the 1890s, George W. Murray appeared to be the antithesis of the African ...
The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement
From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, the...
Saturday, August 29, 2015
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...
Friday, August 28, 2015
Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to theRise of Blaxploitation
The sixties were a tremendously important time of transition for both civil rights activism and the U.S. film industry. Soul Searching ex...
Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money
Why has the home of a Yoruba river goddess become a UNESCO World Heritage site and a global attraction? Every year, tens of thousands of p...
Opening Minds, Improving Lives: Education and Women's Empowerment inHonduras
Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "open" her mind. Living...
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healingfor Inmates and Their Loved Ones
A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper’s bestselling series, inspired by young inmates who write to him seeking guidance. After ...
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz
Called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, r...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The Black Chicago Renaissance
Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring of...
Natural Beauty Alchemy: Make Your Own Organic Cleansers, Creams,Serums, Shampoos, Balms, and More
If you've spent hundreds of dollars looking for the perfect moisturizer, or shampoo, or anti-aging serum, but had no luck, then this b...
Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States:Current Issues
"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the pers...
Money in Africa
The study of monetary systems in the history of Africa is a subject that by its nature crosses disciplinary boundaries, covering more than...
Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City
In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Blacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our ...
Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinct...
Dr. Dre (Hip-Hop Biographies)
There's no doubt about it, today's students listen to an average of 2.5 hours of music every day. Guess what they are listening ...
Fela: This Bitch of a Life
African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controv...
African Art
The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. Th...
African Royal Court Art
Grounding its analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, this text examines the diverse roles played b...
Early Art and Architecture of Africa
This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions ...
Monday, August 24, 2015
A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
Less than a decade ago, Forten remained a footnote in books on U.S. and African-American history. This new critical biography, the first ...
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893
This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum...
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising co...
The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City byLuther Campbell
The raw and powerful true story of how one man invented Southern Hip-Hop, saved the First Amendment, and became a role model for his disen...
Incredible African-American Jazz Musicians
Readers will learn about a variety of African American jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy G...
Sunday, August 23, 2015
The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tul...
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (TheFabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1)
Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systema...
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Volume2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence)
This volume is the second in a projected four-part series concerned with the competition between two historical models for the origins of ...
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization: TheLinguistic Evidence, Vol. 3
This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of anci...
Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics
Undoubtedly, Martin Bernal is an exceptional in the international world of contemporary historical writing. His historiographical enterpri...
Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s mos...
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African MarketWomen
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of...
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