African category: 8440 books
"Who Set You Flowin'?"
The African-American Migration Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American...
Peekskill's African American History
A Hudson Valley Community's Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
The first African Americans of Peekskill had no choice in making the Hudson Valley their home. What they did choose was what kind of home to make of it�choices that were to shape both their community and the course of American history. Meet the African American sharpshooterwho helped swing the balance...
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity
Celtic Soul Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black"...
Liberation Memories
The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual father...
Pictures and Progress
Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought...
by Simon Gikandi, Evan Mwangi
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring...
The Works of James M. Whitfield
America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.
Whitfield's...
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa
A Study of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2008
In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African...
A Fatherless Child
Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.
A...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established...
by P.E. Aligwekwe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
"This newly published book, "AFRICAN CULTURE IS NOT TO BLAME (Western Culture Is To Blame) written by Dr. P.E. Aligwekwe has a very important message both for the West and for Africa; but most particularly for the West. The book is a very audacious speaking out of a biting truth avoided...
Rock My Soul
Black People and Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people.
Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The articles by Polina Levontin and Robert S Malan are currently nominated for the BSFA Awards.
“The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the second Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.
These papers explore the theme through...
by Nancy Jane Copney
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 1999
Preston County, an area nestled in the northern corner of West Virginia, is bounded on the north byPennsylvania and the Mason-Dixon line and on the eastby the state of Maryland. This scenic Appalachian region is primarily a farming community, though mining, timber, recreation, and tourism have also been...