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by Uwa Erhabor
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Kalakuta Diaries is a personal Narrative of events and characters that propelled and defined an African Social-political setting in the heart of Lagos Nigeria. Kalakuta was a creation of an Iconic rare-breed par excellence, whose enduring legacies has left an indelible Footprint in the sands of Africa...
Lift Every Voice and Sing
A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem; 100 Years, 100 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
"A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln's birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercise. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies...
1,999 Facts About Blacks
A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1996
Black History Month is a year-round affair! In this second edition of 1,999 Facts about Blacks, approximately one third of these facts are achievements since 1986 when the first edition was published. Also included is a bibliography for those who want to pursue African-American history beyond the question-and-answer phase.
Phonographies
Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Stare in the Darkness
The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop...
Black Empire
The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
by Captain Theodore Canot
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
by Elizabeth D. Leonard, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.
In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once a black man became a soldier, Douglass...
The Buffalo Soldiers
A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly...
Crafting Lives
African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople...