Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies
Bond without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and Caribbean Relations, 1896-1991
Bond without Blood constructs the narrative of the Ethiopian-Caribbean ties with three interwoven themes in mind: pan-African nationalism, repatriation, and cultural cross-fertilization. Central in all this is the evocative role of Ethiopian symbolism, the precursor of modern racial nationalism, in the...
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Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Framework Papers
This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa’s economic...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE: THE MYTH AND THE REALITY
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES PB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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AND THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUNDAY DRESSES PB
Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity...
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ANCESTROLOGIC AND CARIBBEAN BLUES HB
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris, Olive Senior,...
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ANGOLA UNDER THE PORTUGUESE PB
Seasons of Harvest brings together prominent and emergent international scholars whose unity lies in the collective effort of sharing critical commentaries on neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa with the rest of the world. Contributors on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and São...
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ANIMAL FABLES OTHER TALES HB
The stories in this collection form part of the rich body of oral tradition which survived in the New World. Although many of these tales are from Brazil, some have variants in islands of the Caribbean and in the southern...
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ARISE YE MIGHTY PEOPLE! WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD
Arise Ye Mighty People! is about the new world society emerging fromt he disarray of the old. This collection documents expressions of the new society from Nigeria's oil belt, North America's urban insurgents, the Middle East's intifada, the Caribbean's Rastafari, and...
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ARROWS AND THE BOW
The integrity, sensibility, courage, and delicate balance with which Ladu Jada Gubek draws the rich history and culture [of Africa] together is moving. He brings a refreshing new voice to African and African Diaspora literature and knowledge in this emergent...
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ASINAMALI UNDIVERSITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
Asinamali is an edited collection of essays that includes work by Dennis Brutus, Shereen Essof, Jonathan Jansen, Mahmood Mamdani and Andrew Nash. It is a project of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Asinamali marks CAFA's first enquiry...
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AWAKENING THE NATURAL GENUIS OF BLACK CHILDREN SECON EDITION
Black Awakening in Capitalist America is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s.
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BECOMING AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PB MAKERERE: 1922-2000
For four decades, Makerere University, known as the Oxford of Africa, was the sole university-level institution in all of East Africa. A fabled Mecca for aspiring youth, it trained many of the regions first generation of intellectual and political leaders,...
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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BEFORE BROWN, BEYOND BOUNDARIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVESARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the most important...
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BEYOND THE COLOR LINE HB PAN-AFRICANIST DISPUTATIONS
This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world.
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BLACK WOMEN WHITE MEN THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF FEMALE SLAVES IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES
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BLACK WOMEN WHITE MEN THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF FEMALE SLAVES IN THE DANISH WEST INDIES
Using archival material and other existing sources, this book graphically documents the sexual exploitation of female slaves in holding pens on the West Coast of Africa, on slave ships during the Trans-Atlantic crossing, and on plantations in the Danish West...
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BLACK PRISON MOVEMENTS
The Network of Black Organizers (NOBO) has gathered the first comtemporary collection of Black Prison Movement voices, covering topics ranging from women in prison, the pro and con of parole, behavior modification and human experimentation in prison, Puerto Rican and...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARIAMA BA
Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama Bâ...
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UNIQUELY AFRICAN?: AFRICAN CHRISTIAN IDENTITY FROM CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
This volume is concerned with the problematic nature of African Christian identity. By adopting various cultural, historical, national, and educational perspectives, its contributors explore issues surrounding the nature of being “Christian” and at the same time fully “African.” They analyse...
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SHATTERED ILLUSION, BROKEN PROMISE
When the government of Mengistu Hailemariam was overthrown and replaced by a new government headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 1991, Eritreans had hoped that there was finally a government in Ethiopia that had foresworn hegemonic ambitions towards Eritrea....
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TAKING ON THE SUPERPOWERS: Collected Articles On the Eritrean Revolution, Vol. 1
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritreas besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermaththe summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front-page account in The Washington Post broke Ethiopias long-standing...
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ARROWS AND THE BOW
“The integrity, sensibility, courage, and delicate balance with which Ladu Jada Gubek draws the rich history and culture [of Africa] together is moving.
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LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE IN AFRICA: CAMEROON UNDER PAUL BIYA
This book is written by an outstanding group of scholars, all of whom have a genuine and longstanding interest in peace and social justice in Cameroon. It makes a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Cameroon, the...
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CANTATA FOR JIMMY
“There is quietness in this poetry that reflects deepness past its own use! Or it seems that way. Rashidah lines up the words to make statements of memory, exhilaration, passion, with a casual formality, as if she thought about that....
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MODERNITY AN+B386D THE AFRICAN CINEMA: A Study in Colonialist Discourse, Post-Coloniality, and Modern African Identities
This book argues that the construction of modern African identity in all spheres of life, including the cinematic institution, is a product of the Euro-African contact that started in the fifteenth century. Traditional African institutions, which were overlaid with European...
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Reconnecting Memories: Dreams No Longer Deferred
Deeply rooted in the tradition of African American artistic expression, these lyrical poems are provocative and revelatory. They remind us that black poetry is not only a legitimate literary genre but that it is life as we have experienced it...
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RECLAIMING ZIMBABWE: THE EXHAUSTION OF THE PATRIARCHAL MODEL OF LIBERATION
What really went wrong in Zimbabwe? The promise of liberation, human rights, democracy, development, and prosperity have been shattered by greed, state-sponsored violence, and tyranny.
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RECOVERING LETTERS, DISCOVERING NUMBERS: LITERARY AND STATISTICAL STUDIES
The essays in this collection are attempts to arrive at a few new truths about writers and their writings based on novel evidence that has been either found by chance or subjected to unusual forms of analysis.
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Swahili Modernities: Culture, Politics and Identity on the East Coast of Africa
This book considers the themes of modernity, identity, and politics on the East African coast and islands. Currently, this area is undergoing rapid change as globalization makes its impact. Tourism, increased monetisation, emigration from and immigration to the area, and...
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THROUGH FIRE WITH WATER: TH ROOTS OF DIVISION AND POTENTIAL FOR RECONCILIATION IN AFRICA
This collection of essays presents fifteen case studies of African countries whose recent past has been shaped by conflict.
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