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Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement
Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unified...
Theory of African Literature
Implications for Practical Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Written by a prominent Nigerian public intellectual, the book was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature.
A provocative Afro-centric analysis of African literature that remains essential reading for anyone studying work from the region.
Features a new foreword by Buidun Jeyifo, Professor of African Literature at Harvard University.
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses.
• Offers strategies to assist African American students with succeeding in college
• Reveals stories of African...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was...
by Eva Semien Baham
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Covington is the seat of St. Tammany Parish government and sits north of Lake Pontchartrain in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Records from 1727 show 11 Africans on the north shore. One person of African descent was present at the founding of Covington on July 4, 1813. Most African Americans in...
SoulStirrers
Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ancestral impulse. The Neo-Ancestral impulse emerges as an extension of the Harlem Renaissance, the Negritude Movement, and the Black Arts Movement, all of...
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...
The African Diaspora in India
Assimilation, Change and Cultural Survivals
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis who occupy a unique place in Indian history. The Sidis comprise scattered communities of people of African descent who travelled and settled along the...
Reinventing Citizenship
Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles...
Henry Frye
North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth.
The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches...
African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia
Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African American community. Experience the harrowing narratives of trials and triumph as Alexandria's African Americans helped to shape not only their hometown...