African category: 8440 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and accomplishments—from...
by Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding...
Segregated Soldiers
Military Training at Historically Black Colleges in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In Segregated Soldiers, Marcus S. Cox investigates military training programs at historically black colleges and universities, and demonstrates their importance to the struggle for civil rights. Examining African Americans' attitudes toward service in the armed forces, Cox focuses on the ways in which...
African Americans in White Suburbia
Social Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors,...
Postcolonial Hauntologies
African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial...
African Heartbeat
Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book critically examines classic works of literature and film to suggest ways in which study of fictional characters, cultural themes, and vivid imagery helps us to grapple with, understand, and find resolutions for, problems that seriously concern Americans, including uniformed officers and...
by Dr. Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated...
New Dawn for African Women
Igbo Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
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This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date details
Historic sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date detailsHistoric sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role of blacks...
Doctoring Freedom
The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for...