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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
Written By Himself
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in...
Maulana Karenga
An Intellectual Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and...
Blues Vision
African American Writing from Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.
Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how...
A Sporting Chance
Achievements of African-Canadian Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country’s more tolerant culture in race relations. Yet as this story of African-Canadian participation in sports demonstrates, the record is far more troubling. In reality, Canada’s record in matters of race was a disturbing blend of occasional...
St. Louis
Disappearing Black Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Since the founding of St. Louis, African Americans have lived in communities throughout the area. Although St. Louis� 1916 �Segregation of the Negro Ordinance� was ruled unconstitutional, African Americans were restricted to certain areas through real estate practices such as steering and red lining....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.
• Enables readers to comprehend how sports influence—and are influenced...
Sounding Off
Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Intrigued by "texted" sonorities—the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives—Julie Huntington examines the soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent...
Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years...
by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault....
Building the Black Metropolis
African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton...
by Rolonda D. Teal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
From 1722 to the present, thousands of people of African descent have occupied the region that today encompasses Natchitoches Parish. For almost 300 years, African Americans have made significant contributions to the area�s economic and socialdevelopment. In Natchitoches Parish, the lives of some of...
Give My Poor Heart Ease
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...
Reading Nuruddin Farah
The individual, the novel & the idea of home
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the relationship between modern identity and the novel as a genre. Nuruddin Farah's novels are shown by Moolla to encompass the history of the novel: from the...
The Face of Sunset
African Art of Life, Transformation, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
In Central African thought, Sunset is the time of uncertainty and transformation – the time between day and night, black and white. The Color red, in the triadic system is often the transformative color, acting as the bridge between the two worlds; light and darkness, life and death, good and evil....