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As Black as Resistance
Finding the Conditions for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The essay "The Anarchism of Blackness" appeared in issue #5 of ROAR Magazine this April (as well as on ROAR's website: https://roarmag.org/magazine/black-liberation-anti-fascism/). It made a splash and was reposted and shared widely. The authors responded favorably to the idea of expanding...
The African Diaspora
Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities...
Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 196465
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the...
The Cafe de Move-on Blues
In Search of the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela,...
The Borders of Dominicanidad
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic...
Talking Back, Talking Black
Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
“Superb.” —Steven Pinker
“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication, as well as the still unfolding journey that has led to its creation. . . . [His]...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS
The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument –...
Identity and African American Men
Exploring the Content of Our Characterization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Identity and African American Men: Exploring the Content of Our Characterization provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.
Identity and African American Men makes a unique contribution to the literature by offering a conceptual...
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Race
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy...
by Laura T. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this...
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
A Military Veteran's Story to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Inside the book, the author, Janetra Johnson walks her readers through the process of how she dealt with those financial thoughts of slavery and the Jim Crow era. The book was written from the perspective of a veteran of African descent, who had experienced Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (P.T.S.S.)...
Reconstructing Violence
The Southern Rape Complex in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah E. Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the “southern rape complex” in American film. Taking as her starting point D. W. Griffith’s infamous Birth of a Nation, Barker demonstrates how the tropes and imagery of the...
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop
Crises in Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout...