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Of Times and Race
Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation,...
by A.N. Anih
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Are you looking for authentic African recipes that will make your mouth water? Trying to find great tasting dishes for your Nigerian friend? Look no further! The author originates from one of the most culturally diverse countries in West Africa and brings to you delicious mouth-watering soups from...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy. This extraordinary collection of essays...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
Take over Control
Without Physical Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
This Book is about universal human consciousness, religion, supernatural creativity, and spirituality illustrated with the African.
The issues (Based on US tour, 2008) analyzed, and for which solutions are propounded include:
A person loses control when a victim of Spiritual, Psychic,...
The Making of an African King
Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the Effutu of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
The Making of An African King is a study examining the causes of the kingship internecine struggle among the Effutu by exploring the two traditional systems of succession, the patrilineal and the matrilineal, among the Effutu (Awutu-abe), and how best to end political violence. Kingship or chieftaincy...
Bound For the Promised Land
African American Religion and the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s...
Illegible Will
Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that will's illegibility, given the paucity of materials outlining the agency of black historical subjects....
Divining the Self
A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with...
Alienation and Literature
Discursive Maps in the West African Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Alienation and Literature is concerned with the problem of change in the society and how it is perceived by the West African writer. It aims to define and identify the various facets of alienation and demonstrate how they are manifested in the lives of people and in the imagination of creative writers....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book, the second in the series, is a distinct exploration of how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the...
The Racial Glass Ceiling
Subordination in American Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conservatives blame black behavior. Both define the race problem...
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings...