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by Quintard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
"This is an enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. You finish it understanding how integral a part blacks were of the making of the West and, indeed, America." — David Nicholson, Washington Post
A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In...
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
by Iyunolu Osagie
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book is a significant and original contribution to the ongoing conversation on modernity. It uses the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity and makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures...
by Elwyn Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of...
In Search of the Blues
A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers...
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Detailed profiles bring stories of African American heroism in the U.S. armed forces to life, from the American Revolution through the conflict in Afghanistan.
• Shares 80 detailed biographies of African Americans who earned their nation's highest medals for valor
• Covers both well-known...
Righteous Riches
The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Does God want us to be wealthy? Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in the here and now. Other Christians see this "prosperity theology," as nothing more than vulgar materialism, incompatible with orthodox Christianity. In...
Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial...
by Brenda Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre...
Race and Meaning
The African American Experience in Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri....
African Cherokees in Indian Territory
From Chattel to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free...
by Thomas J. Davis Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
One of every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African American—a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth and development. This fascinating study moves from Africans' early contacts with the Americas to African Americans' 21st-century presence, exploring their role in...
The Veiled Garvey
The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973).
Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where she became involved in the Universal...