African category: 8440 books
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves...
Jennie Carter
A Black Journalist of the Early West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator-one of the nation\'s premier black weekly newspapers during Reconstruction-began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself \"Ann J. Trask\" and later \"Semper Fidelis.\" Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881), and the Elevator...
A History of Afro-Hispanic Language
Five Centuries, Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian...
African American Army Officers of World War I
A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson’s request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” Two months later 1,250 African American men—college graduates, businessmen,...
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound
Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of a segregated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919. It is also a study of contemporary approaches to community building during a time period of racial segregation and polarization....
by Bosede Funke Afolayan, Christopher Anyokwu, Chikaodiri Augustus
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers. The book includes a literary biography, professional profile, and an interview with professor Adimora-Ezeigbo...
Essays on Social Issues & How They Impact African Americans and Other People of Color
Law, Literature, and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Essays on Social Issues spans the gamut of social and political issues in law, literature and social work. It provides a diverse perspective on the practical implications of social policy, marginalization, and The Arts as it relates to people of color. Not only does this research consider traditional...
Against the Closet
Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of erotic transgression to contest...
by Rajend Mesthrie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
South African Indian English (SAIE) is a variety of English in the Linguistics literature. It reflects the source of Indian subcontinent languages from Indian migrants to South Africa in the late 19th century, as well as colonial and apartheid influences and those of local African languages.
Black Muslims and the Law
Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties as what might arguably be called the inaugural and first sustained challenge to the suppression of religious freedom in African American legal history. Borrowing...
South African Literature's Russian Soul
Narrative Forms of Global Isolation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie...
Like a Lily Among Thorns
Colonial African Village Child Transitions to Post-Colonial Modernity, and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
* Awarded RECOMMENDED status by US Review of Books * Awarded FIVE STARS by Readers Favorite Reviews Imagine yourself having one foot planted on one continent while the other foot is on another continent. A huge transformational step, isnt it? Thats precisely what Inno Onwuemes early-life story does....
The Black Pacific Narrative
Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black...
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...