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by Harvey Williams Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Views of a Southern Black Man is a compilation of selected weekly editorials written by the author over a fifteen-year span. In this book, the author shares his experience with racism in the south. He also talks about the problems that continue to plague the African American community as he offers...
African Americans and Homeschooling
Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate...
Anima and Africa
Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
C. G. Jung understood the anima in a wide variety of ways but especially as a multifaceted archetype and as a field of energy. In Anima and Africa: Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature, Matthew A. Fike uses these principles to analyze male characters in well-known British, American, and...
A White Side of Black Britain
Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces...
Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda
The Trouble with Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve.
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity
A Philosophical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. Explicitly, the philosophical examination of Black Theology conceptually maps its quest for establishing Black Christology as an authentic...
West African Perspective
Recipes Inspired by Gambian Cuisine with an International Blend
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Whether you plan to serve a simple meal or go extremely elaborate, there is something in this cookbook for you. The international flare that the recipes add to your cooking is what you really need to wow your guests and family. You can choose to go for the familiar dishes or a complete traditional...
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands...
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora
Travelling Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award
With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black...
Dealing with Evils
Essays on Writing from Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues. Gagiano focuses on these texts' engagement with the forces that damage and threaten...
Intellectual Imagination
Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual...
Andrew Young
Civil Rights Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador explores the rising influence of race in foreign relations as it examines the contributions of this African American activist, politician, and diplomat to U.S. foreign policy. Young used his positions as a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973D77),...
The Princess and the Prophet
The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
How the circuses, dance halls, and midways of the Gilded Age provided the cultural ferment and freedom that led to the creation of the Black Muslim movement in America.
Beyond the customary narratives of Gilded Age America lies a world of circuses, Wild West shows, and midways populated by...
Black Men and Depression
Saving our Lives, Healing our Families and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In mainstream society depression and mental illness are still somewhat taboo subjects; in the black community they are topics that are almost completely shrouded in secrecy. As a result, millions of black men are suffering in silence or getting treatment only in extreme circumstances–in emergency...