Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Outriders Africa: Essays on Exploration and Return
It is Spring 2020, and 10 writers of African heritage, travelling in pairs, set out on journeys across Africa. It is a strange time to be travelling, and the shifting state of the world is reflected in temperature checks at...
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Nairobi Noir
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in...
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Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2016. "A breathtakingly original and fresh piece of food writing, which I found myself compulsively rereading. Aribisala is that rare writer who makes you laugh...
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Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were...
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Dear Black Boy
Dear Black Boy is a letter of encouragement to all of the black boys around the world who feel like sports are all they have. It is a reminder that they are more than athletes, more than a jersey number,...
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Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
BLACK PIONEERS: AN UNTOLD STORY one of Katz’s four important books on the African American experience as western pioneers. It has a new Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the...
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Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.Features a new introduction by Robin...
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The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln...
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The Artisans - A Vanishing Chinese Village
Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history.Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family...
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Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick (Coming Soon-Jun 18, 2024)
In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one...
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Becoming Abolitionists
A NONAME BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of 2021" "Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. And in the end, Purnell makes it clear that abolition is a labor of love—one that...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop...
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Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
The authors present the importance of this African tradition. Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.
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Meditations Across the King's River
Join author and filmmaker James Weeks as he delves into the ancient Ifa spiritual tradition that led his family to healing. Absorb his stories as he travels abroad, tapping into the spirit realm and showing us ways to commune with...
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Ancient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2
A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS Vol. I and 2. It may have been a million years ago The Light was kindled in the Old Dark Land With which the illumined Scrolls are all aglow, That Egypt...
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Capitalism & Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
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Capitalism & Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for...
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora
Product details
Publisher : Red Sea Press
Language : English
Paperback : 60 pages
ISBN-10 : 0932415253
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken (YA Non-Fiction)
A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. First, their friend T.J. must...
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Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World (paperback)
A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past.Was America really “stolen” from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving,...
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The Year of the Lash: Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”―a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next...
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Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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Writing Rumba: The Afro-Cubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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Writing Black Britain, 1948–98: An interdisciplinary anthology
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes...
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World's Great Men of Color, Volume I
The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most noteworthy Black personalities in world history and their significance....
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Worlds Apart: Race in the Modern Period
Long before the physical advent of Blacks in Europe, Professor Dathorne asserts they featured over and over again in literature as marginalized Others, but rarely were real Blacks present. As English developed as a language, race came into the evolution...
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The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in...
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with...
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