Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....
by Lindy Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear...
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College:...
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism...
X Marks the Spot
Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical...
The Gun in Central Africa
A History of Technology and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa. Marrying the insights of Africanist historiography...
Intonations
A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music...
In Idi Amin’s Shadow
Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the...
by Richard B. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European...
Marriage by Force?
Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
“When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural address, noting: ‘I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery...
Colonial Meltdown
Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In Colonial Meltdown, Moses E. Ochonu challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive responses...
by Anthony Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa’s most famous liberation movement. It has recently celebrated its centenary, a milestone that has prompted partisans to detail a century of unparalleled achievement in the struggle against colonialism and racial discrimination. Critics paint a less flattering...
Living with Nkrumahism
Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key...