African category: 8440 books
Black Corona
Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class...
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains,...
The African American Experience in Crime Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and...
The River Flows On
Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American...
by Tanure Ojaide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brought about by increased globalisation. Tanure Ojaide takes a variety of European theoretical concepts...
African Women Under Fire
Literary Discourses in War and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath...
Structural Models and African Poetics
Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In this pioneering work, first published in 1981, Sunday O. Anozie examines the relevance of structuralism and semiology to literary criticism in general and to African poetics in particular. Behind the growing body of African literature lies an immense reservoir of oral tradition for which the proper...
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction.
As demand for manpower grew during the...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
The Epic Trickster in American Literature
From Sunjata to So(u)l
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature
Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.
Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and...
Black Elephants in the Room
The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party?
Black...
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet...
Sovereign Evolution
Manifest Destiny from "Civil Rights" to "Sovereign Rights"
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Rated 24th Best Black Book of 2009 Inside Black Hollywood Magazine
From emancipation to segregation to integration, African Americans exist today by virtue of a continuum of political evolutions, each of which is built upon prior legacies and achievements. In advancing our political progression,...