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by Steven A. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The movement of Southern blacks to the urban North and West over the course of the 20th century had a profound impact on black life, affecting everything from politics and labor to literature and the popular arts. This encyclopedia provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive reference work...
The Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans...
by Coco Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 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 Kenya recipes are full of African,...
Race Over Party
Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post–Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon...
Ancient Echoes
A Modulation of Prose Music Culture and Yoruba Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
This book is a multiple resource for beginning students in liberal studies who need hands-on approach in studying African literature, art, religion, percussion, politics, and mythology.
In spite of its diverse scope, the book has highlighted cogent issues, such as marriage, nomenclature, hierarchy,...
Crying for Freedom
An African Across Europe to America
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
CRYING FOR FREEDOM tells the story of Oheneba, a young man from Africa whose desire to escape his native country's defective social, political, and economic systems propels him to Europe and eventually to the United States. He discovers that neither place is the "land of milk and honey"...
by Andy Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
History revealed and sacred discovery. Punishment and redemption in the ancient Kingdom of Saba.
Deep in the Ethiopian Highlands lies a secret cavern guarded by a chosen few, for it contains the object of mankind’s dreams and deepest desires.
A hoax and fraud.This is how many regard the...
Africa Complete Collection (23 Languages)
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Africa (Including Bambara, Chewa, French, Hassaniya Arabic, Hausa, Jahanka, Jola, Luganda, Malagasy, Mandinka, Moore, Moroccan Arabic, Pulaar, Sepedi, Setsw
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Africa Complete CollectionWelcome to the Africa Complete Collection. This book is one of largest African language collections available and includes 23 languages all with full audio.This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Africa. Learn essential words,...
by Joe Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
"Boldly suggests that cultural organizing shaped the trajectory and spirit of the Civil Rights Movement."--Journal of American Ethnic History "Street brings together many different cultural strands in this work and argues cogently that they were an important part of a movement that...
From Within the Frame
Storytelling in African-American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text...
by Anagba Jibunor
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Total Recall 1 is not a one-story, coherent book though. This is to say that it does not zero in on one story from beginning to the end. Rather, it is a collection of different stories put together into a small book. From . . . the story of a kingdom, a small town, that divides against itself when...
Race, Nation, Translation
South African Essays, 1990-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa
The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa’s leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume....
by benus adu poku
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
IntroductionThis is Book One of a trilogy with the same title. The sacrifice in the Sahara has a special place in the category of immensely touching and heart-palpitating suspense-filled stories that ravage the soul. It also provides ample insight into some of the hitherto undocumented perils,...
Stages of Life
A Triumphant Story of an African Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In Africa, Chidi Udo is born under the most tragic of circumstances. His mother doesnt survive his birth, but he does have his father to care for him. He grows to be a young man and does well in school but soon loses his father, too. Due to this further tragedy, he is deprived of the opportunity for...