Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
African American Images Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women
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New World Library Native American Wisdom Classic Wisdom Collections
Book SynopsisA collection of quotations by Native Americans divided into eleven categories, including the ways of learning, the ways of living, and the ways of the white man, with historical background.
£13.77
Windsor Golden Series The Valley of the Dry Bones The Conditions That
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminism Is for Everybody
Book SynopsisWhat is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their livesâto see that feminism is for everybody.Trade ReviewPraise for Feminism Is for Everybody:"bell hooks has always written in a very readable style, eschewing footnotes because people in her hometown told her they were put off by books with footnotes. This time, she set out to write a book that explains feminism, particularly for a mainstream audience….certainly she has once again made the point that feminists need to try to reach women of all races and classes." —Carol Anne Douglas, Off Our Backs (2001)Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition Introduction: Come Closer to Feminism 1. Feminist Politics: Where We Stand 2. Consciousness-Raising: A Constant Change of Heart 3. Sisterhood Is Still Powerful 4. Feminist Education for Critical Consciousness 5. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Reproductive Rights 6. Beauty Within and Without 7. Feminist Class Struggle 8. Global Feminism 9. Women at Work 10. Race and Gender 11. Ending Violence 12. Feminist Masculinity 13. Feminist Parenting 14. Liberating Marriage and Partnership 15. A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom 16. Total Bliss: Lesbianism and Feminism 17. To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism 18. Feminist Spirtuality 19. Visionary Feminism
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Square Fish Nio Wrestles the World
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St Martin's Press A Peculiar Indifference
Book SynopsisNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus ReviewsA smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency. The New York Times Book ReviewAbout 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young Black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even Black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men, despite homicide's usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of Black Americans, the shocking amount of everyday violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention, and has nearly disappeared as a target
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Picador USA The Free World
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Houghton Mifflin Big Little Man
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Hanover Square Press African Samurai The True Story of Yasuke a
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Edinburgh University Press Japanese Racial Identities within U.S.Japan
Book SynopsisConsiders: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relationsTrade Review"Tarik Merida brilliantly illustrates how modern Japan encountered the world of White supremacy and negotiated within it to create a racial middle ground." With a sophisticated theoretical framework and detailed historical research, this provocative study overturns our common understanding of racial dichotomy to provide a new interpretation of how exceptionally complex Japanese racial identity was constructed."" -Kotaro Nakano, University of Tokyo
£76.50
Random House USA Inc Mom Me Mom
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their r
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Tyndale House Publishers QUIET STRENGTH PB The Principles Practices
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Tyndale House Publishers While the World Watched
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Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Leading Within Systems of Inequity in Education
Book SynopsisAs a leader of colour, what do you need to succeed in the systems that often have marginalized the populations you represent? What skills and support will help you to replace existing systems with new ones that will better serve today’s students? In this volume, Mary Rice-Boothe addresses these questions with specific recommendations.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Psychology of Inequity
Book SynopsisThis book presents cutting edge conceptualizations of the psychological challenges of inequity and engages the audience in examining the global nature of inequity and how it psychologically impacts human beings across both space and time.The Psychology of Inequity: Global Issues and Perspectives examines the psychological consequences of inequity beyond the borders of the United States and other western nations. Inequity does not end at national borders; it is a global problem that reflects the interdependent nature of our planetary existence. This book advances our understanding of psychological inequity as a global problem requiring global solutions.The volume approaches its topic from many angles, moving from a discussion of the psychological concerns of specific groupsfrom targets of racism and sexism to the plights of migrants, refugees, and immigrantsto large scale global inequities and their psychological consequences, such as educational inequities and climate chaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Threatening or Marginalized: Muslim Identity and Perceived Inequality among Minority Muslim Populations Gulnaz Anjum, Milan Obaidi, Sania Sohail, and Roheena Madni 2 Universality and Variability of Women's Experiences of Workplace Sexism: An Integration of the Social Dominance and Intersectional Approaches Yue Li and Y. Joel Wong 3 Globalization and Inequity: Families and Individuals in Crisis Sonia Suchday and Linda Escobar Olszewski 4 Exploring Inequities Faced by Immigrants with Multiple Minority Identities Mercedes P. Palacios, Martha Hernández, and Sita G. Patel 5 Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants Pantea Javidan, Jessica Rahter, and Lisa M. Brown 6 Migrants and Resettlement: From Crisis to Self-Sufficiency Kassaw Tafere Merie, Juneau Mahan Gary, and Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen 7 Borderlanders' Knowledge of Mental Health and Mental Illness: Mental Health Literacy Inequalities on the Border Ediza Garcia, Elizabeth Terrazas-Carrillo, Desi Alonzo Vásquez, Liabette Rodriguez, Amanda Rodriguez, and Carolina Osoria 8 Reshaping Social Relations in Educational Theory and Practice: A Global Teaching and Decolonizing Collaboration Melanie E. L. Bush and Nokuthula Hlabangane 9 Global Inequity, Climate Change, and Sustainability: An Indigenous Perspective Arthur W. Blume 10 Application of United Nations Global Compact Principles to Protect Indigenous Peoples, Preserve Human Rights, and Promote Corporate Social Responsibility Falu Rami and Lizette Solis-Cortes About the Editors and Contributors Index
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Arcadia Publishing Italians of Brooklyn
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Arcadia Publishing Banished from Johnstown Racist Backlash in
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History Press New Mexicos Stolen Lands
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The University of North Carolina Press Soul Food The Surprising Story of an American
Book SynopsisIn this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish - such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens, and “red drinks” - Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African American culture and identity.Trade Review[A] fascinating look at the cuisine known as soul food and its close cousin, southern cuisine. . . . Photographs and recipes add to the allure of this well-researched look at the past and future of soul food.-Booklist Starred ReviewA wonderful combination of sociological examination of African-American culture and identity, travelogue and cookbook. . . . It's exactly this combination of earnest curiosity and an unwillingness to take his topic too seriously that makes Soul Food such a great read. . . . I highly recommend this book!-Nashville SceneI recommend this book to 'foodies' and to those interested in American history, African American history and preserving good down home soul food cooking.-Tennessee LibrariesMiller's book is a mouth-watering tome that not only titillates the palate, but feeds the brain with science, geography and history.-Denver WestwordInsightful, thoughtful and meticulously researched, Soul Food sets a place for soul food in the American culinary canon. There's no way you won't be craving something sweet and fried and soulful for dinner.-Virginian-PilotCrafts a dynamic and engaging biography of an American cuisine.-Southern HistorianMiller knows all about soul food's allure, both as a way of eating and as cultural totem. . . . [His] book is a labor of love.-Denver PostDeliciously entertaining and rich in its history.-Journal of American CultureMost people don't know soul food the way Miller does. . . . Miller's book studies soul food mainly in terms of its quintessential ingredients or dishes. . . [and] along the way, he dishes up a few surprises.-Winston-Salem JournalThis highly-informative opus . . . is filled with fascinating factoids.-Kam Williams2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and ScholarshipMiller took up the challenge of tracing soul food's history and launching its spirited defense after realizing the story had never really been told in a comprehensive way.-Villager NewspaperFocusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish-such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens and 'red drinks'-Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African-American culture and identity.-The Philadelphia TribuneJust the book to move readers from one end of the line to the other without getting bogged down. . . . Soul Food is ingenious . . . [and] speaks to the enduring mythological power of its staple dishes.-Michael Twitty, American ProspectAn intelligent review that explores the muddy territory 'where southern food ends and soul food begins.' The journey is as informative as it is entertaining.-Austin ChronicleDetailed and sprightly. . . . [Miller] adds in-depth chapters that explore more than a dozen soulful dishes-including catfish, black-eyed peas, mac and cheese, cornbread, and candied yams.-Stanford MagazineAs Miller tells the whole story of soul food from its beginnings to current day and throughout, he is so skillful at finding cultural and historical context, you may find yourself learning about your own food culture.-Culinary Historians of WashingtonBoth thought-provoking and celebratory.-Edible PiedmontAn engaging, tradition-rich look at an often overlooked American cuisine-certainly to be of interest to foodies from all walks of life.-Kirkus starred review[A] comprehensive and entertaining history of soul food. . . . A lively and thorough account for fans of food literature and of African American history. Recipes included. Highly recommended.-Library Journal[Miller] doesn't do anything halfway.-5280Examines the roots of a distinctly American tradition.-StarNewsOnline.comMiller moves way past common notions about soul food to offer a fascinating look at the cuisine and its close cousin, southern cooking.-Booklist Top 10 Food Books of 2013[A] lively, innovative, and carefully researched study of traditional African American food habits.-North Carolina Historical ReviewMiller makes many surprising points and teaches us a great deal about our Southern foodways' relationship to soul food. . . . Along the way, we get some fascinating insights, and a few great recipes and illustrations.-Okra MagazineAn undeniably entertaining book.-Journal of Southern History
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The University of North Carolina Press Pauli Murray A Personal and Political Life
Book SynopsisThe Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In this intimate biography, Troy Saxby provides the most comprehensive account of Murray's inner life to date, revealing her struggles in poignant detail.Trade ReviewThere's so much to glean from this book, so many milestones Saxby says Murray set, that you almost can't stop reading despite watching the discomfort, obvious pain, and inner struggle she endured. Through letters and articles she wrote, readers get to know Murray as she perceived herself. Those personal peeks are engrossing, especially given the legacy she left. . . . Any reader who wants to know more about social justice pioneers should get a bead on it.--The Washington Informer This detailed biography on an underrated social and politlcal activist results in an ambitious undertaking by Saxby, whose emphasis on Murray's private life tells a history of trials based on personal experiences and records.--Library Journal
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The University of North Carolina Press No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the
Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning.
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The University of North Carolina Press Race Removal and the Right to Remain Migration
Book SynopsisReorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Samantha Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.
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Kensington Publishing The Divine Nine
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Scribner Book Company Heavy
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Simon & Schuster Heavy An American Memoir
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Scribner Book Company The Fire This Time A New Generation Speaks about
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Scribner Book Company Better to Have Gone
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Simon & Schuster The Newcomers
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A delicate and heartbreaking mystery story...Thorpe’s book is a reminder that in an era of nativism, some Americans are still breaking down walls and nurturing newcomers, the seeds of the great American experiment.” —The New York Times Book Review“Extraordinary. . . . The Newcomers puts a human face on the refugee question. The book is a journalistic triumph. Thorpe . . . pens a masterful book that lets readers see the humanity instead of the facts and figures and politics of the immigration debate.” —The Denver Post“This book is not only an intimate look at lives immigrant teens live, but it is a primer on the art and science of new language acquisition and a portrait of ongoing and emerging global horrors and the human fallout that arrives on our shores… The teens we meet have endured things none of us can imagine…But we learn a great deal, and that’s never been more crucial than at this moment.” —USA Today“Thorpe’s fascinating chronicle of a year in an English-acquisition class at a Denver high school provides a timely and much-needed perspective on the global refugee crisis.” —Los Angeles Times“Thorpe provides a layered portrait of the students and explains the daunting refugee crisis in America and elsewhere . . . . [and] puts an agonizing human face on a vast global problem.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“An extensive, riveting account that presents the manifold challenges of the refugee crisis through the microcosm of one classroom.” —Booklist“Few books could be more vital, in this particular moment or in any moment, than this book. Helen Thorpe writes expansively about one school, one classroom, one teacher, one group of students—students who hail from the most severe places in the world and come together at South High. Confused, troubled, bright, magnificent: they converge, ostensibly to learn English, learning so much more than a language—learning about us and about themselves, all the bad and all the good. You need to meet these young people. Once you do, everything you read or hear or say will be illuminated and changed.” —Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace“Helen Thorpe didn’t miss a detail during the year she spent watching twenty-two young refugees begin to learn how to speak English (difficult) and how to be American (even more difficult). No one with a pulse could fail to be moved by this beautifully reported book.” —Anne Fadiman, author of The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down“In this time of great anxiety, this splendid, humane, beautifully crafted book is a reminder of America’s proud, historic role as a beacon of hope to the world. And it is a terrific story.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time, Team of Rivals, and The Bully Pulpit “I loved this book. It brims with teenage life, with a sense of America being reborn, of new Americans being made. Cultures converge in a high school classroom where teenagers—with all the energy, earnestness, and embarrassment we expect, but also with trauma—learn English with the help of a teacher who appreciates all the ways it’s not easy. The Newcomers teaches us about parts of the world we can barely imagine and also takes us into their new American homes. Helen Thorpe, herself the child of immigrants, is a terrific writer and a steadfast character witness to these people so many of us fear.” —Ted Conover, author of Coyotes, Newjack, and Immersion
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Atria Books Miss ExYugoslavia A Memoir
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Simon & Schuster The Boy on the Beach My Familys Escape from Syria
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Skyhorse Publishing White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and
Book SynopsisAs seen on The Today Show! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy RoadshowWhite Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her African-American mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness.Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.Trade Review“Lukasik takes us inside her family story, revealing that her own mother chose to live as a white woman. Lukasik, bravely and eloquently, writes with a researcher’s eye and a daughter’s heart. In righting her own history, Lukasik graciously affords us the opportunity to right our own.” —Goldie Taylor, editor-at-large of the Daily Beast“Meticulously researched . . . Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States . . . a narrative made compelling by her deeply felt emotional responses as she excavates her own heritage. This is a book which will elicit much discussion among diverse audiences, adding, as it does, to the too often elusive American tapestry.” —Ronne Hartfield, author of Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family“Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history . . . Adds to the ongoing conversation about race and racial identity in America because it looks at the ramifications of institutionalized racialism and racial passing through one family’s story.” —Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow“In White Like Her, Lukasik, with the persistence and canniness of the sleuths as the detective novelist she sometimes impersonates, explores how complicated race is in America.” —Randy Fertel, author of The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir“Lukasik takes us inside her family story, revealing that her own mother chose to live as a white woman. Lukasik, bravely and eloquently, writes with a researcher’s eye and a daughter’s heart. In righting her own history, Lukasik graciously affords us the opportunity to right our own.” —Goldie Taylor, editor-at-large of the Daily Beast “Meticulously researched . . . Offers new insights into issues surrounding the complex history of racial passing in the United States . . . a narrative made compelling by her deeply felt emotional responses as she excavates her own heritage. This is a book which will elicit much discussion among diverse audiences, adding, as it does, to the too often elusive American tapestry.” —Ronne Hartfield, author of Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history . . . Adds to the ongoing conversation about race and racial identity in America because it looks at the ramifications of institutionalized racialism and racial passing through one family’s story.” —Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow “In White Like Her, Lukasik, with the persistence and canniness of the sleuths as the detective novelist she sometimes impersonates, explores how complicated race is in America.” —Randy Fertel, author of The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir
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Skyhorse Publishing Black: A Celebration of a Culture
Book SynopsisOver 500 glorious black-and-white photographs celebrating black culture throughout American history, from Jesse Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry. Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people. Tackling all subjects with bravery and frankness, Deborah Willis’s work is a true treasure to behold.Black: A Celebration of a Culture, which would be a perfect complement to any Juneteenth celebration, presents a vibrant panorama of twentieth-century black culture in America and around the world. Broken up into segments that examine in detail such subjects as children, work, art, beauty, Saturday night, and Sunday morning, the photos detail the history and the evolution of a culture. Each photograph, handpicked by Deborah Willis, America’s leading historian of African American photography, celebrates the world of music, art, fashion, sports, family, worship, or play. With five hundred photographs from every time period from the birth of photography to the birth of hip-hop, this book is a truly joyous exhibition of black culture. From Jessie Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry, Black: A Celebration of a Culture is joyous and inspiring.
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Arsenal Pulp Press Escape to Gold Mountain
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Coach House Books Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of
Book SynopsisFrom martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was a loyal Christian who died a martyr’s death. But soon after the best-selling novel appeared, theatre troupes across North America and Europe transformed Stowe’s story into minstrel shows featuring white men in blackface. In Uncle, Cheryl Thompson traces Tom’s journey from literary character to racial trope. She explores how Uncle Tom came to be and exposes the relentless reworking of Uncle Tom into a nostalgic, racial metaphor with the power to shape how we see Black men, a distortion visible in everything from Uncle Ben and Rastus The Cream of Wheat chef to Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson to Bill Cosby. In Donald Trump’s post-truth America, where nostalgia is used as a political tool to rewrite history, Uncle makes the case for why understanding the production of racial stereotypes matters more than ever before.
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Broadview Press Ltd Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
Book SynopsisThe Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings—both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery. The Broadview Edition offers for the first time annotations and appendices that contextualize the novel in relation to magazines, Black feminism, travels to Africa, racial discourses, scientific and medical debates, and musical culture. The edition's introduction surveys current debates about Hopkins's textual borrowings of from other contemporary writings, and the appendices provide extensive materials on the novel's cultural, musical, and political contexts.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood identifies and contextualizes Hopkins’s wide-ranging and varied inspirations, sources, and allusions in a manner that helps readers trace and understand how she employed her craft to perform ‘historical recovery in the service of racial justice.’ Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney’s brilliant introduction and meticulously researched notes bring Hopkins’s voice to life and illuminate her position as one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. The breadth and depth of primary contemporaneous sources that Dahn and Sweeney have assembled raise the bar for scholarly editions.” — Alisha Knight, Washington College“Dahn and Sweeney’s edition of Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self strongly grounds the novel in the context of its publication in the Colored American Magazine and of relevant contemporaneous texts and ideas. Its wealth of background and archival material and meticulous elucidation of many of Hopkins’s textual ‘borrowings’ provide multiple inroads for the study of the novel and a tremendous resource for students, instructors, and scholars.” — Julie Fiorelli, Loyola University ChicagoTable of ContentsAppendix A: Pauline Hopkins and the Colored American Magazine 1. From “Rise of the Black Republic: Miss Pauline E. Hopkins Lectures at Tremont Temple,” Boston Post (18 Oct 1889) 2. “Pauline E. Hopkins,” Colored American Magazine (January 1901) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Dedication and Preface to Contending Forces (1900) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 5. From R. S. Elliott, “The Story of Our Magazine,” Colored American Magazine (May 1901) 6. “Powerful Serial Stories,” from “Announcement for 1902,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 7. Cover, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 8. “An Interesting Publication,” Colored American newspaper (4 April 1903) 9. Synopsis of Chapters I to XXIII of Of One Blood, Colored American Magazine (November 1903) 10. Crane and Co. Cosmetics Advertisement, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 11. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (October 1903) 12. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 13. “Editorial and Publisher’s Announcements,” Colored American Magazine, (May-June 1903) 14. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “How a New York Newspaper Man Entertained a Number of Colored Ladies and Gentlemen at Dinner in the Revere House, Boston, and How the Colored American League was Started,” Colored American Magazine (March 1904) 15. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Letter to William Monroe Trotter (16 April 1905) 16. From “Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (November 1904) 17. From “The Colored Magazine in America,” Crisis (November 1912) Appendix B: Black Feminist Activism 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: IV. Some Literary Workers,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 2. From Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address of Josephine St. P. Ruffin, President of Conference” (1902) 3. From Victoria Earle Matthews, “The Value of Race Literature” (1895) 4. From Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) 5. From Anna Julia Cooper, “The Status of Woman in America” (1892) Appendix C: “Of One Blood” 1. From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 2. Acts of the Apostles 17.16-33 (King James Bible) 3. From Frederick Douglass, “The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered” (1854) 4. From Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. From Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio (1894) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins (as J. Shirley Shadrach), “Furnace Blasts: II. Black or White?—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage?” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Appendix D: Hopkins’s Africa 1. From John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book Four (1667, 1674) 2. From John Hartley Coombs, editor, Dr. Livingstone’s 17 Years’ Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa (1857) 3. From A.F. Jacassy, “African Studies: I. Tripoli of Barbary,” Scribner’s Magazine (January 1890) 4. From Noel Ruthven, “In the Claws,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 5. From N. Robinson, “The Colossal Statues of Egypt and Asia,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 6. From G.A. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile(1835) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race. VII. Educators (Continued),” Colored American Magazine (June 1902) 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Ethiopia” (1854) 9. From H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1886-87) 10. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, “The Black Princess” (1872) 11. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World” (25 July 1900) 12. From Pauline E. Hopkins, A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration by its Descendants—with Epilogue (1905) Appendix E: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Professional Medicine 1. From William James, “The Hidden Self,” Scribner’s Magazine (March 1890) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “The Mystery Within Us,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 3. From Emma Hardinge Britten, “The Improvvisatore, or Torn Leaves from Life History” (1861) 4. From “The Haunted Voice,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (December 1884) 5. From J.P.F. Deleuze, Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (1837) 6. From The History and Philosophy of Animal Magnetism, with Practical Instructions for the Exercise of This Power, by a Practical Magnetizer (1843) 7. “Discovers the Secret of Life: Indiana Physician Asserts It Is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air,” Boston Daily Globe (29 September 1902) 8. From W. E. B. Du Bois, editor, The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (1900) 9. Abraham Flexner, “The Medical Education of the Negro” (1910) Appendix F: Musical Culture 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: I. Phenomenal Vocalists,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From Theodore Drury, “The Negro in Classic Music; or, Leading Opera, Oratorio and Concert Singers,” Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Advertisement for Theodore Drury Opera Company’s Aida, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 4. Poster for Fisk University Jubilee Singers Concert (c. 1885) 5. “Go Down, Moses,” from The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs, 5th edition (1876) 6. From Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) 7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of the Sorrow Songs,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 8. From James Weldon Johnson, “Preface,” The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
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Smithsonian Books Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African
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Lushena Books From Niggas to Gods Part One: Sometimes The
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Nia Communications The Goddess Blackwoman Mother of Civilization
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Temple University Press,U.S. African Intellectual Heritage
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diasporaTrade Review"This marvelous volume, African Intellectual Heritage, is indispensable for anyone interested in the life of the mind. Molefi Asante and Abu Abarry are to be congratulated for this fine gift." - Cornel West, Harvard University "This impressive work shows a profound appreciation for African intellectual ideas." - H. Patrick Swygert, President, Howard University "Remarkable for its extensive coverage of the African world, African Intellectual Heritage brings together the information for which scholars, students, and the general public have been waiting. Mary McLeod Bethune, Julius Nyerere, Marcus Garvey, and Ptahhotep in the same book! This is a bold and positive enterprise." - Rebecca Hankins, Senior Curator, Amistad Research Center, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsPreface An African Chronology 1. African Sources: An Introduction Part I: The Creation of the Universe 2. The Heliopolis Creation Narrative 3. The Memphite Declaration of the Deities 4. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Unas 5. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Teti 6. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Pepi 7. Tomb Inscription Princess Ni-sedjer-kai 8. Tomb Inscription Hotep-her-akhet 9. Tomb Inscription Nefer-seshem-ra 10. Memorial Stone Ni-hebsed-pepi 11. The San Creation Narrative 12. The Khoi Creation Narrative 13. The BarozviCreation Narrative 14. The Dogon Creation Narrative 15. The Yoruba Creation Narrative 16. The Asante Tower to Heaven 17. The Asante Concept of the Creation of the Lesser Gods 18. The Creation James Weldon Johnson Part II: Religious Ideas 19. The Prophecy Nefer-rohu 20. Tomb Prayers Paheri 21. Selections from the Papyrus of Ani 22. Hymns to Aten Akhenaten 23. Prayer and Hymn Haremhab 24. Penitential Hymns 25. Selections from the Book of Henok (Enoch) 26. Religion and Ancestor Veneration Jomo Kenyatta 27. Asante Praise Poems to Tano River and the Earth 28. A Lodagaa Libation to the Ancestors 29. Recurrent Themes in Ga Libation (Mpai) Oratory Abu Shardow Abarry 30. Igbo Invocations 31. Wapele: The Concept of Good Character in Ifa Literary Corpus Wande Abimbola 32. Akan Religion Mensah Sarbah Part III: Culture and Identity 33. Her Assertion of Her Power Queen Hatshepsut 34. Yoruba Praises to Ogun 35. The Resources of the Oral Epic Isidore Okpewho 36. Kouroukan Fougan, or the Division of the World by Sundiata 37. The Ozidi Saga J.P. Clark-Bekederemo 38. The Rise of Shaka Mazisi Kunene 39. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 40. Identity, Culture, and Kidnapping Olaudah Equiano 41. Indigenous Institutions of Ghana '85 J. Caseley Hayford 42. The Condition and Destiny of Africans in the United States Martin Delany 43. W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk Houston A. Baker, Jr. 44. Notes on a Return to the Native Land Aime Cesaire 45. The Origin and History of the Black World Cheikh Anta Diop 46. Africa's Tripartite Heritage: Towards Cultural Synthesis Ali A. Mazrui 47. The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature John Henrik Clarke 48. First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1956) 49. Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1959) 50. On National Culture Frantz Fanon 51. Identity and Dignity in the Context of Struggle Amilcar Cabral 52. African Classical Concepts of Tragedy Wole Soyinka 53. The Akan Blackened Stool and the Odwira Festival Peter Sarpong 54. The Ga Homowo (Hunger-Hooting) Cultural Festival Abu Shardow Abarry 55. Africa as the Nursery of Science and Literature J. Africanus B. Horton 56. The Principal Issues in Afrocentric Inquiry Molefi Kete Asante 57. Genetic Linguistic Connections of Ancient Egypt and the Rest of Africa Theophile Obenca Part IV: Philosophy and Morality 58. The Study of African Religions and Philosophy John Mbiti 59. The Idea of African Philosophy Kwame Gyekye 60. Moral Teachings Ptah-hotep 61. My Victory over Circumstances Sinuhe 62. Instructions for Well-Being Amenemope 63. The Pharaoh's Speech at the Installation of Rekhmire as Prime Minister 64. The Doomed Prince 65. The Story of the Two Brothers 66. My Journey to Asia Wen-Amon 67. The Lion in Search of Man 68. African Socialism Leopold Sedar Senghor 69. Consciencism Kwame Nkrumah 70. The Zulu Personal Declaration 71. The African Writer and the English Language Chinua Achebe 72. Igbo Proverbs 73. Luyia Proverbs 74. African American Spirituals 75. On African Rights and Liberty Maria W. Stewart 76. Philosophy and Opinions Marcus Garvey 77. The Concept of Race W.E.B. DuBois 78. The Ethics of Culture Alain Locke 79. The Life and Times of Anton Wilhelm Amo, the First African (Black) Philosopher in Europe William E. Abraham Part V: Society and Politics 80. Autobiography Weni 81. Autobiography Harkhuf 82. Theory of Human Society William E. Abraham 83. On the Fante National Constitution Mensah Sarbah 84. Mohammedanism and the Negro Race Edward Wilmot Blyden 85. Christianity and the Negro Race Edward Wilmot Blyden 86. Racial Accommodation Booker T. Washington 87. The Atlanta Exposition Address Booker T. Washington 88. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others W.E.B. DuBois 89. A Critique of Booker T. Washington's Plan Monroe Trotter 90. Women as Leaders Amy Jacques Garvey 91. Brazilian Quilombismo Abdias Do Nascimento 92. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1919) 93. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1945) 94. The Power of Negro Action Paul Robeson 95. Declaration and Resolutions of the First Conference of Independent African States (1958) 96. The Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Their Meaning and Message Maulana Karenga 97. One-Party Government Julius K. Nyerere 98. The Need for a Union Government for Africa Kwame Nkrumah 99. The Rise and Fall of Nkrumah C.L.R. James 100. My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation James Baldwin 101. W.E.B. DuBois: The Jamesian Organic Intellectual Cornel West Part VI: Resistance and Renewal 102. The Expulsion of the Hyksos Ah-mose 103. The Commemorative Stone of Thutmose III 104. Annals Thutmose III 105. Pharaoh Piye and the Victory over North 106. The Portuguese Fortress at El Mina King Kwame Ansa 107. A Shona Song 108. Narrative Nat Turner 109. Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery David Walker 110. Fourth of July Oration Frederick Douglass 111. We Are All Bound Up Together Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112. Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race Anna Julia Cooper 113. Lynch Law in All Its Phases Ida B. Wells-Barnett 114. The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson 115. Address to the League of Nations Emperor Haile Selassie 116. My Last Will and Testament Mary McLeod Bethune 117. I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr. 118. Colonial War and Mental Disorders Frantz Fanon 119. Revolutionary Culture and the Future of Pan African Culture Amiri Baraka 120. Charter of the Organization of African Unity 121. How Africa Developed before the Coming of the Europeans - up to the Fifteenth Century Walter Rodney 122. Message to the Grassroots Malcolm X 123. Towards the Sixth Pan African Congress: Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean, and America Walter Rodney 124. Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. 125. Negroes Are Not Moving Too Fast Martin Luther King, Jr. 126. Cultural Revolution and the Future of the Pan African Culture Abdias do Nascimento 127. Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle Angela Y. Davis 128. Black Sisters, Speak Out Awa Thiam 129. The Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement Maulana Karenga Glossary of Names and Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Sources and Credits Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Black Corporate Executives
Book SynopsisA revealing study of the promising entry of Blacks into managerial ranks in corporations and the disappointing trend that tracked them into increasingly vulnerable jobsTrade Review"Collins-Lowry gives persuasive examples of how employment gains made by Blacks in the 80's were rather more marginalized than we like to think." --Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsTables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Controversy over Race and Class 2. A Politically Mediated Opportunity Structure 3. Racialized Services in the Workplace 4. Tan Territories, Urban Upheaval, and the New Black Professionals 5. Race Tracks and Mainstream Careers 6. Peacekeepers, Crisis Managers, and Conciliators 7. Blacks on the Bubble 8. A Rash of Pessimism 9. Bursting the Bubble: The Failure of Black Progress Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and
Book SynopsisFor many black Americans, the prominence and success of black Cubans in early efforts for independence and abolition highlighted a sense of racial identity and pride, while after U.S. intervention the suppression of Afro-Cuban aspirations created a strong interest among African-Americans concerning Cuban affairs. This collection, edited by a black Cuban and a black American, traces the relations between Cubans and African-Americans from the abolitionist era to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The eleven essays gathered here, written by scholars from both countries, heighten our appreciation of African-Americans as international actors and challenge the notion that Cubans had little or no race consciousness. This is the first study of the world capitalist system to track the international consciousness of working peoples, peoples of color, and women. With a focus on two sets of peoples not in state power, Between Race and Empire expands our understanding of \u0022history from below,\u0022 and reflects current trends in PanAfricanist and African Diaspora studies by tracing a little-studied linkage between two peoples of African descent.Trade Review"...delves into topics such as religion and protest poetry. Layers of history are peeled back, building an understanding of political and racial dynamics between the darker citizens of the United States and Cuba." -Emerge Magazine "The contributors to this excellent study have uncovered a rich legacy of two peoples who not only fought racism and imperialism but also interacted in the process." -Hispanic Magazine "The rich and complex relationship between Afro-Americans and Afro-Cubans is the theme of the eleven essays gathered in this charming volume. The strength of this anthology is that it explores this relationship from 'below.' The essays focus on music, poetry, literature, and sports as the means which two peoples of color were able to express their uniqueness and develop their parallel race consciousness." -Ethnic Conflict: Research DigestTable of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: Between Race and Empire Lisa Brock 1 Minerva: A Magazine for Women (and Men) of Color Carmen Montejo Arrechea 2 Telling Silences and Making Community: Afro-Cubans and African -Americans in Ybor City and Tampa, 1899-1915 Nancy Raquel Mirabal 3 The African-American Press and United States Involvement in Cuba, 1902-1912 David J. Hellwig 4 Encounters in the African Atlantic World: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cuba Jualynne E. Dodson 5 Cuba's Roaring Twenties: Race Consciousness and the Column "Ideales de una Raza" Rosalie Schwartz 6 Marcus Garvey in Cuba: Urrutia, Cubans, and Black Nationalism Tomas Fernandez Robaina 7 Nicolas Guillen and Langston Hughes: Convergences and Divergences Keith Ellis 8 Not Just Black: African Americans, Cubans, and Baseball Lisa Brock and Bijan Baye 9 Cuban Social Poetry and the Struggle against to Racisms Carmen Gomez Garcia 10 CuBop! Afro-Cuban Music and Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture Geoffrey Jacques 11 The African-American Press Greets the Cuban Revolution Van Gosse Epilogue Digna Castaneda Fuertes About the Editors and Contributors Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices
Book SynopsisAn in-depth examination of contemporary Chicana writersTrade Review"Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail." --Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Testimonio as Biotheory 1. Politics, Representation, and Emergence of Chicana Aesthetics 2. Classical Rifts: The Fugue and Chicana Poetics 3. The House on Mango Street: An Appropriation of Word, Space, and Sign 4. Shades of the Indigenous Ethnographer: Ana Castillo's Mixquiahuala Letters 5. Orality, Tradition, and Culture: Denise Chavez's Novena Narrativas and The Last of the Menu Girls 6. New Visions: Culture, Sexuality, and Autobiography Notes Index
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Orbis Books (USA) Towards an African Narrative Theology
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Orbis Books (USA) Resurrection Song: African American Spirituality
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Orbis Books (USA) The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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Orbis Books (USA) What's Faith Got to do with it: Black Bodies,
Book SynopsisReflects on the historical sins of Christians, particularly the role of white Christians in countenancing the lynching of African Americans. This exploration then leads the author to broader questions.
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Black Classic Press Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the
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NewSouth, Incorporated American Founders: How People of African Descent
Book SynopsisAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, litigants, laborers, artisans, artists, activists, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs, generals, cowboys, pirates, professors, politicians, priests, poets, and presidents. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds.
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