Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Skinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's AMERICANAH
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First Realize You Were Black? Provoked by the fraught relationship between the African continent and American culture in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, acclaimed Nigerian-American novelist Tochi Onyebuchi takes an emotional and intellectual...
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Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
A Black immigrant journeys from the Caribbean to Canada—and through multiple musical personas—in a “deeply moving” memoir “suffused with poetic prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).As a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad—raised by...
$25.00
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
$180.00
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Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry Gonzalez
"Biography of Marta Terry Gonzâalez, director of Cuba's Josâe Martâi National Library. Discusses the role of Afro-Cuban in Cuban history and culture and the role of libraries in the context of the Cuban revolution"--
$47.25
The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. -He rescued 118 enslaved people-He won a medal at the first World's...
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. -He rescued 118 enslaved people -He won a medal at the first...
$55.99
Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902–1997), a black woman known as “Reyita,” recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita’s voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story—as told...
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Reclaiming the Soil: A Black Girl’s Struggle to Find Her African Self
An extraordinary story of cultural confusion and the long way home to a black girl’s emotional roots. David Robbins The Rosie Motene story is about a young girl born to the Bafokeng nation during the apartheid era in South Africa....
$21.00
And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self
"Common has achieved success in many facets of his life and career, from music to acting to writing. But for a long time, he didn't feel that he had found fulfillment in his body and spirit. And Then We Rise...
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Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work...
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year "Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us...
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Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain; an...
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¿Quién fue Nelson Mandela? (Quien Fue? / Who Was?) (Spanish Edition)
s a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader...
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The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
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The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
$184.99
Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to “put forth an argument for...
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Perspectives of Black Histories in Schools (Research in Social Education)
Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, we have seen k- 12 Black history expand as an academic subject, which has altered research...
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner’s Not of Pure Blood shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner’s study focuses on the free people of...
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
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Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner’s Not of Pure Blood shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner’s study focuses on the free people of...
$31.00
My Own Liberator: A Memoir
In My Own Liberator, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. In tracing his ancestry, the influence on both his maternal and paternal sides is evident in the values they...
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Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora located in Canada
Black Canadian Studies is the exploration of the range of histories, experiences, contributions, perceptions, feelings, convictions, triumphs, and obstacles awaiting to be overcome, of identified Black people of African descent resident in Canada. Black Canadian Studies revolves around the agency...
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Miriam's Song: A Memoir
Mark Mathabane first came to prominence with the publication of Kaffir Boy, which became a New York Times bestseller. His story of growing up in South Africa was one of the most riveting accounts of life under apartheid. Mathabane's newest book, Miriam's Song, is the story...
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Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874
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Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874
This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. The West India Regiments were part of the British military establishment for 132 years, generating vast records with details about every one of their...
$140.00
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she...
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Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the New South Africa by a Member of the Post-apartheid Generation
Apartheid isn't over—so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making...
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Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 164)
By examining the unique problems that “blackness” signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, “Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas," Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as...
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Malcolm X and Africa
"This is an authoritative book on a critical aspect of Malcolm X's courageous political work and thought. Connecting the struggle of Africans and African Americans for liberation to the geopolitics of the Cold War in Africa, this impressive book documents...
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Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia...
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The Life of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
Born into slavery on a Maryland farm, Josiah Henson (1789–1883) worked as a foreman, married, and became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Faced with the prospect of separation from his family, Henson fled with his wife and children...
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