African American category: 7736 books
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...
by James Omolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The history of People of African Descent (PAD) is a complex story in itself, and lies at the centre of the history of humanity.
This book recounts the multiple realities People of African Descent experience in Poland. The process of migration of PAD had been voluntary and devoid of duress because...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that...
From Agriculture to Agricology
Towards a Glocal Circular Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In this meditation, respected Ugandan academic Dani Wadada Nabudere traces the roots of the global economic crisis and warns of the threat that the decline of Western nations poses to the African continent—the final frontier for those in search of new lands and resources to exploit. As a deterrent...
by John Osom
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The idea of writing this book, titled Killing of African-Americans by Racist Cops, came up when Father John Osom was teaching a course on Contemporary Issues in Ethics among which was Racism in the University of St Thomas. Houston Texas in 2015. This book refutes categorization of people into Black...
Fighting for Africa
The Pan-African Contributions of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson and Bill Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Fighting for Africa captures the commitment and contributions of two men who dedicated their lives to the fight to free Africa from colonialism and racism. Ambassador Dudley Thompson, though born in the West Indies, became a British barrister. Thompson lived in Africa, where he provided essential...
We Are The Blessings Of Africa
Reshaping Our Greatness Together
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
"This book is endorsed by the First Lady of Nigeria, Her Excellency, Dr. (Mrs.) Buhari."
We Are The Blessings of Africa is a reawakening call on every African, home and abroad to unite in turning their diversity into a powerful solution for African issues. When we see ourselves as...
by Tunde Adeleke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Postcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate...
Black Pearls
Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Eric V. Copage's Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day's entry range from African proverbs to wisdom from Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm X, Terry McMillan, Bill Cosby, Rosa Parks, Spike Lee, Marian Wright...
by Nina Reid-Maroney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening...
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...
Anthem
Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
For people of African descent, music constitutes a unique domain of expression. From traditional West African drumming to South African kwaito, from spirituals to hip-hop, Black life and history has been dynamically displayed and contested through sound. Shana Redmond excavates the sonic histories of...
Like a Lily Among Thorns
Colonial African Village Child Transitions to Post-Colonial Modernity, and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
* Awarded RECOMMENDED status by US Review of Books * Awarded FIVE STARS by Readers Favorite Reviews Imagine yourself having one foot planted on one continent while the other foot is on another continent. A huge transformational step, isnt it? Thats precisely what Inno Onwuemes early-life story does....
by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brotherhood of man. This volume of West African folk tales includes a number of such tales, among them, "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Greedy...