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Fighting for Africa
The Pan-African Contributions of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson and Bill Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism. Ambassador Dudley Thompson, though born in the West Indies, became a British barrister. Thompson lived in Africa, where he provided essential...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States...
Animals and Desire in South African Fiction
Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of...
Race for Citizenship
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion...
We Are The Blessings Of Africa
Reshaping Our Greatness Together
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
"This book is endorsed by the First Lady of Nigeria, Her Excellency, Dr. (Mrs.) Buhari."
We Are The Blessings of Africa is a reawakening call on every African, home and abroad to unite in turning their diversity into a powerful solution for African issues. When we see ourselves as...
by Zoe Adjonyoh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
"I believe we are on the cusp of an African food revolution. There is a longing to try something that is actually new, not just re-spun, and African cuisines are filling that gap. It's the last continent of relatively unexplored food in the mainstream domain. For too long Africans have kept this...
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
by Lee D. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating...
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
William Brown's African and American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded...
by Tunde Adeleke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Postcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate...
Women Writers of Gabon
Literature and Herstory
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that...
From David Walker to Barack Obama
Ethiopianists as Keepers of the African Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
In FROM DAVID WALKER TO BARACK OBAMA, Dr. Emma S. Etuk contends that well-known Ethiopianists have o?ered the inspiration for black freedom and must not be forgotten.
Ethiopianists and Ethiopianism have little or nothing to do with the government or the country known today as Ethiopia in East...
The Dance of Freedom
Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau...
A Different Day
African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged...