African category: 8440 books
Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
Bodies of Knowledge at Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include...
The Hip-Hop Generation
Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's...
Seven Grains of Paradise
A Culinary Journey in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Seven Grains of Paradise tells the fascinating and much neglected story about many kinds of food in Africa, a continent with a rich farming tradition, intricate cuisines and a multitude of food cultures.
Centuries of disparaging judgements and a half century of media reports churning out images...
by Coco Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Coco originates from Mombasa and has spent years travelling around Africa taking in the cultures of a vibrant continent. In her series of books 'Coco Cooks Africa' she revisits some of her favourite places and cooks some of the best meals she has tasted. Coco Cooks Gambia recipes are full of African...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...
America's First Black Socialist
The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
In pursuit of his foremost goal, full and equal citizenship for African Americans, Peter Humphries Clark (1829--1925) defied easy classification. He was, at various times, the country's first black socialist, a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and an advocate for the Democrats. A pioneer educational...
A Respectable Woman
The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active,...
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1995
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist...
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
An African Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds...
by Patricia A. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled,...
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College:...
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call
Activist Voice for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories that may have influenced news...