African category: 8440 books
by Phillip Pablo
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Do you crave African meals and too lazy to cook? This recipes book contains 50 surprisingly simple African recipes you can prepare and cook on the same afternoon. In other words, it is so simple, even your lazy ass can cook!
The recipes follow the most well known African recipes and they are...
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind:...
Defining Moments
African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
A Working People
A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America’s black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African Americans have faced a unique set of obstacles...
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial...
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction
Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New...
Representing the Race
A New Political History of African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop...
Whispered Consolations
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American...
Race Matters, Animal Matters
Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B....
by Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper, Craig Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature...