African category: 8440 books
by Miriam Kinai
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Herb and Spice Blends: African teaches you how to prepare herb and spice blends from African. You will discover the recipes for:* Pilau Spice Blend from Kenya* Berbere Spice Mix from Ethiopia* Ras El Hanout from Morocco
Disintegrating the Musical
Black Performance and American Musical Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002
From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts,...
Liberation Historiography
African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed....
Real Role Models
Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
All young people need good role models, and black youth especially need positive and real examples beyond the famous and wealthy people they see on SportsCenter highlights and MTV Cribs. While success as a celebrity athlete or entertainer may seem like an achievable dream, the reality is that young...
Authentically African
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display...
The Games Black Girls Play
Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology
2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes....
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions...
Anthem
Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound. Shana Redmond excavates the sonic histories of...
In Search of the Afropolitan
Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature...
Becoming Black
Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and...
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's...
The Bahá’í Faith and African American History
Creating Racial and Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in...
The African American Encounter with Japan and China
Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries,...