African category: 8440 books
Drawing the Line
Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with reference...
by Tom Gatten
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Tom Gattens The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainly a young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher Kojo Dedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive social change.
The story is told from the point of view of Deanie Hollins,...
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures
A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American...
by Anthony Bogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions of ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism,...
by Jack Kassinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
When three CIA employees go missing, there is only one man willing to find them in the depths of the African wilderness. That man is Jack Casey, a retired CIA operative, and nothing can stop him—because one of the missing men saved his life.Casey is lucky to be alive after a horrific helicopter...
by Kevin Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Christian singles face many challenges that threaten our peace of mind.African-American Christian singles must confront these and additional obstacles that arise solely because of our heritage and racial background.Compounding these challenges, many of us make decisions involving our spirituality,...
This Ain't Chicago
Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African...
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the “black belt” because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in...
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Villages, Ghosts, Lovers....And Red Rice is a hauntingly delightful true story of events that took place in the life of an African American family living in Savannah, Georgia from 1963 to 2000. Both dramatic and, at times, twistingly humorous, the story touches on root working, controversial interracial...
Don't Hate the Player Learn the Game
How to Spot "Ineligible" Eligible Bachelors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Women would like to make better choices in selecting a mate, and this book helps them recognize the qualities they desire and how to find them beneath the façade men often possess. The book looks at nine different player stereotypes, including truth tellers, mama’s boys, betrayers, and deceivers,...
By Any Greens Necessary
A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle.African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability...
Mint Tea and Minarets
A Banquet of Moroccan Memories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Behold, a singular structure soars above the banks of the Oum er-Rbia, The Mother of Spring River, within the 16th century medina of Azemmour. Into her late father's riad, an historic Moorish mansion, Kitty Morse, the author of five books on Moroccan cuisine, warmly coaxes you. Generations of cooks...
Is That Your Mom?
Voices of Cross Racially Raised Adults of The African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20?30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross?racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White parent voices, further silencing crossracially...