African category: 8440 books
Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been...
Shaping the Future of African American Film
Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In Hollywood, we hear, it’s all about the money. It’s a ready explanation for why so few black films get made—no crossover appeal, no promise of a big payoff. But what if the money itself is color-coded? What if the economics that governs film production is so skewed that no film by, about,...
by Clara Villarosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Celebrating notable African Americans, this inspirational and thoughtprovoking collection of quotations covers a wide range of African-American heroes, from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall to Jackie Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald to Harriet Tubman, Toni Morrison to Jesse Owens,...
by Stafford Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Africa Offers a Sensual and Controversal Twist to Its Literary Legacy
Four Tales with a Moral and a Tease
These are not kiddy bedtime stories about spiders posing riddles or cute monkeys playing pranks. Read a different side of African fiction; delve into soft porn and hard core emotions...
Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Looking Inward
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This book is a study in African literary influence. It focuses on the importance of indigenous sources to new writing. The analytical framework for the study draws on recent conceptual advances in theories of authorship. Juxtaposing works and authors that are traditionally thought to be unlikely bedfellows,...
Something Torn and New
An African Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores...
Sites of Slavery
Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists...
Race Consciousness
Reinterpretations for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the...
In the Middle of Nowhere
J.M. Coetzee in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa. Drawing on Coetzee's "South African" writings...
by Adrian Roscoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a unique portrait of the continent's rich and diverse literary traditions. This volume examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and...
The Communist Party in South Africa
Racism, Eurocentricity and Moscow, 1921-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Why is the history of communism in a country at the bottom of the African continent still important enough to warrant this book? South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that still has a strong communist party whose views are not only taken into account by the government, but whose members...
by Laura T. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this...
Migrating the Black Body
The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media�from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels�has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose...