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The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
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African American Community Practice Models

Historical and Contemporary Responses

by Iris Carlton-Laney, N Yolanda Burwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change. This text celebrates African American experiences and challenges you to understand the black experience from the...
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by Chielozona Eze
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011

The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by Africa’s response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite...
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The African American Child, Second Edition

Development and Challenges

by Yvette R. Harris, PhD, James A. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014

Praise for the First Edition: "This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable...
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by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017

Carter G. Woodson's classic text on the emergence of African American churches, chronicling their story out of the eighteenth-century evangelical revivals and their transformations through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is important for reasons other than "black church" history. With...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005

African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Over the course of an African American’s lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual’s unique interactions with his or her environment. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community uses this perspective to provide a deeper analysis of factors and issues affecting...
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by Kameelah L. Martin, Beauty Bragg, James Manigault-Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013

With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic...
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Germans and African Americans

Two Centuries of Exchange

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010

Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the...
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Contemporary Voices From The Margin

African Educators on African and American Education

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Traditionally, American educators and communities have looked to Europe and Asia for ideas for rethinking and reforming education for America’s diverse children. This book, Contemporary Voices from the Margin: African Educators on African and American Education, brings together new voices of diverse...
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Becoming African in America

Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

by James Sidbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading...
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by Chrystal Y. Grey, Thomas Janoski
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017

How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking...
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by Sekou Clincy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010

The main objective of this book is to afford readers a comprehensive view of the current state of the African American experience from the perspective of a child and youth. Oftentimes, members within and outside the African American community fail to objectively critique this culture. The worst of...
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