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by Milton Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
Twins born to a society that believes such a birth is a dangerous omen, Ndoro and Obaseki are separated at birth to live different lives. One becomes a great warrior who is ostracized because of his birth, the other a pampered prince whose strange way result in banishment. Meji is an epic fantasy...
In the Name of the Mother
Reflections on Writers and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced...
by Eugene Frazier Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen slave plantations. For many African Americans, it is hard to imagine how far this small island has come. It has left them with a legacy of both the joy and...
by Jennifer E. Cheeks-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2002
The African-American community of Gwinnett County boasts a rich heritage brought to life in scenes captured by early photography. These residents faced challenges and hardships both during and after slavery and entered into the turbulent 20th century poised for social change; theirs is an engaging story...
White Guilt
How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against him, went free after his attorney portrayed him...
Tenderheaded
A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
What could make a smart woman ignore doctor's orders?
What could get a hardworking employee fired from her job?
What could get a black woman in hot water with her white boyfriend?
In a word...
HAIR.
When does a few ounces feel like a few tons? When a doctor advises a black woman to start an exercise...
by Harry J. Elam
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...
Picture Freedom
Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality...
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
The Book in Africa
Critical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.
by George Francis Dow
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The long, grim story of the slave trade is a tragic historical narrative. This darkest and most heartless era in African-American history saw millions of Africans kidnapped and sold into bondage in the West Indies, the American colonies, and later, the United States.
This history is recalled firsthand...
by Jeanne Herring Ed.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
In this engaging new visual history showcasing Macon�s African Americans, vintage photographs illuminate the contributions and achievements of black citizens who have lived and worked in the heart of Georgia for more than one hundred and fifty years. Local landmarks, such as the Douglass Theater and...
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women...