African category: 8440 books
African American Firsts, 4th Edition
Famous, Little-Known And Unsung Triumphs Of Blacks In America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Updated With The Latest Facts And Photos
"A Black history buff's dream." --Ebony
From ground-breaking achievements to awe-inspiring feats of excellence, this definitive resource reveals over 450 "firsts" by African Americans in fields as diverse as government, entertainment,...
Parodies of Ownership
Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."
---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
"Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish...
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema
A Poetics of Laughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African American Perspective, leading black scholars come together to discuss complex human behavior problems faced by African Americans and to force the abandonment of conceptualization theories made without consideration of the Black experience....
African Film and Literature
Adapting Violence to the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
Emerging Traditions
Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The monograph explores the linguistic impact of the colonial and postcolonial situations in South Africa on language policy, on literary production and especially on the stylistics of fiction by indigenous South Africans writing in English. A secondary concern is to investigate the present place of...
Sweet Home Café Cookbook
A Celebration of African American Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café
Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right....
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants
A Resource Guide for Service Providers in Central Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants focuses on African immigrant elders culture, religion, and spirituality in the United States. The ultimate aim is to provide a resource guide on African immigrant elders for the social workers, nursing homes, physicians, pharmacists, bankers, lawyers,...
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Style and Status
Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status:...
African American Women in the News
Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...