African category: 8440 books
Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
Building a Legacy of Black History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley,...
The Art of Conversion
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile...
by Marvin A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This is the first book to interpret the African dimension of contemporary Hispanic literature.
Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, is the only African country in which Spanish is an official language and which has a tradition of literature in Spanish. This is a study of the literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness...
AfroAsian Encounters
Culture, History, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian...
Why We Make Movies
Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A sparkling collection of interviews with African American directors and producers.
Bringing together more than thirty candid conversations with filmmakers and producers such as Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, and Robert Townsend, Why We Make Movies delivers a cultural...
Why I Am so Proud to Be a Black Man
The Many Reasons to Uplift and Celebrate Our Uniqueness in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In the beginning, when God created the black man, He gave all his wisdom to his first creations without boundaries and fears. Unfortunately, for far too long, black men have been portrayed negatively in our society and by the daily rhetoric that surrounds us. In their comprehensive study compiled...
Exodus from the Door of No Return
Journey of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
After sixty years, Dr. Roy G. Phillips, retired founding campus president at Miami-Dade College, Homestead Campus, returned to his native home in rural Webster Parish outside of Minden, Louisiana. It took him almost forty years to fulfill a dream, a journey that began as a conversation with renowned...
A Small Nation of People
W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America
by Aurolyn Melba Hamm
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Elbert County, the granite capital of the world, is nestled in the northeast corner of Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The educational and political journey of many African Americans in this county began at Elbert Colored High School. African Americans in Elbert County helped...
At Mama's Knee
Mothers and Race in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Winner of the African American Literary Show Award for Best Non-Fiction
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every...
A Stolen Life
Searching for Richard Pierpoint
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years in exile. From his birth in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around...
Free
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In spare, elegant stories reminiscent of the writings of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West, Anika Nailah illuminates the emotional, spiritual, and social realities that shape–and sometimes destroy–the lives and dreams of ordinary African Americans.
The stories in Free offer a moving,...
Enough
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents,...