Africa
Africa
A Literary Revolution
Original works, diverse perspectives, and multiple disciplines intersect in A Literary Revolution. This book features much-needed perspectives of people of African descent and delves into those perspectives through the use of literature, film, short stories, poetry, and philosophy. Through various academic...
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The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
“No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force. The 1970s are a decade virtually lost...
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Land, Chiefs, Mining: South Africa's North West Province since 1840
Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of...
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African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East
African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East
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Blackpop
Acutely aware of how popular culture acts as a carrier of social prejudice and invective, Merali's work is exercised specifically by the racial and racist content of popular culture.
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Black Political Thought in the Making of South African Democracy
" . . . a comprehensive analytical survey of the multidimensional evolution of black political thought in South Africa's politicization process." ―Choice"Many citizens experience a sense of reluctance to share a single national identity with all of those who are...
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Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas
Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at...
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Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas
Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at...
$220.00
Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa
When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the most brilliant and successful studies in...
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Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
$168.00
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Leading experts from the disciplines of history, literature, art history and anthropology examine black African experiences and representations from slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and...
$39.99
Apartheid's Great Land Theft: The Struggle for the Right to Farm in South Africa
The forced dispossession of Africans from the land was central to the origins of the apartheid system. The fight to regain access to the land is key to forging an alliance of exploited producers that can successfully carry through to...
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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Special Publications of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University)
These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of...
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An Analysis of Educational Challenges in the New South Africa
This book deals with current developments in black education in South Africa since the introduction of Bantu education in the beginning of the 1990s. During the period under discussion, improvements have been made in black education. These improvements are partly...
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Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora (New Black Studies Series)
Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora...
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Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora
This book seeks to explore, in a single, short convenient text, the complex relationship between Africa and the Americas from the early sixteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. Beginning with a preview of the relations between Africa...
$40.99
Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations
While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a...
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Africans Before Caricom
Africans Before Caricom documents the long history of members of the World African Community from their beginnings in Africa to their arrivals in the Caribbean and other parts of the western hemisphere. Its first chapter reports ideas from African peoples,...
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Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding African-American historian, has brought the range of his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experience in the...
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Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms
The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline....
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The African Presence in Santo Domingo
Throughout its long and often tumultuous history, “La Hispanola” has taken on various cultural identities to meet the expectations―and especially the demands―of those who governed it. The island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti saw its first great shift...
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Edited and translated by Mercer Cook. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this one-volume translation of the major sections of C. A. Diop's two books, Nations negres et culture and Anteriorite des civilizations negres, which have profoundly...
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African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors...
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The African Imagination in Music
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the...
$47.99
African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
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African Images (Global Issues)
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
$195.50
African Exodus: Migration and the Future of Europe
In 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Africa and the Near East took flight and sought refuge in Europe. By the end of that year, some 1.8 million migrants had arrived in the EU, the vast majority having come...
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African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned...
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The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant Identities and Experiences (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)
This insightful book examines the Black African diaspora in Britain through an examination of its demography, recent patterns of migration, changing patterns of residence, and socio-economic position. It provides an analysis of the areas where Black Africans face disadvantage, including...
$68.99
African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the...
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