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The New Encyclopedia Africana
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates;

Africana
by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Legendary scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois labored to complete an "Encyclopedia Africana" before his death in 1963. Just over 35 years later, two Harvard educators, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Ghanaian-born Kwame Anthony Appiah, have brought Du Bois' intellectual dream to life in Africana, the most...

Africana Woman
by Cynthia Jacobs Carter
A compendium of critical female figures from the African Diaspora is an excellent idea; the book succeeds in offering a range of biographies, from Hatshepsut of Egypt-who was wed to her half-brother and later usurped his throne-through Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker to Anita Hill. Unfortunately,...

Africana Studies
by Mario Joaquim Azevedo, Mario Azevedo
Ardie Myers, Insights
"It introduces readers to the most comprehensive account of black interdisciplinary subjects to date..."

The Quest for Community and Identity :
Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy (New Critical Theory)
Robert E. Birt;
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within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established. Birt has collected an informed group of contributors here, who lay the foundation for a new approach to finding community and identity in the Africana world.

Africalogical Perspectives:
Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Race and Africana Studies Volume 1, Number 1-January/February 2004
Katherine Bankole;

The Shaping of Black America
(African American History (Paperback)
by Lerone Jr. Bennett, Charles White

What forces transformed Africans into African-Americans? In what way did their presence shape the attitudes--and fortunes--of white America? How did black people become a nation within a nation? And what are the prospects for that nation in the 1990s?

These are among the questions that Lerone Bennett, Jr., addresses in this triumphant companion volume to his epochal Before the Mayflower.Where that book rendered the African-American experience chronologically, The Shaping of Black America tells its story from a developmental perspective.

Afrocentric Traditions
(Africana Studies)
James L. Conyers;
In this collection of compelling essays, scholars critically examine the history, culture, and social policies that surround the African Diaspora and explore how these have shaped the experiences of African-Americans today. The essays address a wide range of related topics that include historical perspectives on black clergy, the historical significance of black poetry and literature, the place of black studies in the academy, racism on campuses, and issues concerning social work. In seeking to promote dialogue between scholars of various disciplines, this volume fosters a non-hegemonic perspective that is critical for investigating and understanding contemporary African-American culture.

Before the Mayflower
A History of Black America
by Lerone Jr. Bennett

Before the Mayflower traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an exploration of the complex realities of African-American life in the 1990s. Here is the most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey of "the other Americans," together with vital portraits of black pioneers and seminal figures in the struggle for freedom, as well as additional material on historical developments in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years.

The African-American Century
by Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates
The African American century was the one "in which African American life was transformed--and the century in which African Americans changed America." When it began, only 35 years after the end of slavery, few could envision what the 20th century would hold for black Americans.

All Things Censored
Mumia Abu-Jamal;
To some, Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer, is a cold-blooded cop killer, but to his supporters, the death-row inmate is a hero, wrongly condemned by a racist system. In this collection of forceful prison essays and radio talks written over the last decade

Autobiography of Malcolm X
MALCOLM X;
Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant...

Book Cover Between Slavery and Freedom:
Philosophy and American Slavery (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Howard McGary;
A critique of liberal theories of distributive justice and an examination of the alleged connection between racial identification and moral and political theories.

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America/25th Anniversary Edition Lerone Bennett;	The Black Diaspora: Five Centuries of the Black Experience Outside Africa Ronald Segal;
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District Hannibal B. Johnson;	Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations ; V. 6) Ivan Van Sertima;
Black Workers: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present Philip Sheldon Foner;	Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life Bell Hooks; A series of dialogues between and interviews with two of the foremost black intellectuals in America today, this volume is of enormous importance and offers rewarding reading. At the outset, hooks describes these conversations as a kind of "testimony," in the religious sense, to "what it means to be...
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History James Mellon; Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that, Mellon ( The Face of Lincoln ) maintains, lie at the root of today's racism. Chilling examples of...	Black Profiles in Courage : A Legacy of African-American Achievement Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; With all the flair of his last-second game-winning sky hooks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers a well-written and important collection highlighting the lives of America's greatest black heroes. Taking his title cue from John Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Abdul-Jabbar brings to life the exploits of a...
Black Legacy: A Revelation to My Sistas & Brothas Debra A. Darks;	Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Kimberle Crenshaw; As of the publication of Critical Race Theory it will be unwise, if not impossible, to do any serious work on race without referencing this splendid collection.
Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil W. E. B. DuBois;	The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks Randall Robinson; Randall Robinson, the founder and president of TransAfrica (a lobbying organization dedicated to influencing U.S. policy toward Africa and the Caribbean), recounted his heroic struggle to fight and overcome racism in the magnificent Defending the Spirit. In his triumphant follow-up, ...
The Fire Next Time JAMES BALDWIN; It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning...	Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America Randall Robinson; This elegant memoir by Randall Robinson, political activist and founder/president of TransAfrica--an organization that lobbies for African and Caribbean interests that was instrumental in defeating Apartheid in South Africa--details the triumphant life of a warrior dedicated to fighting racism
Freedom's Daughters : A Juneteenth Story Lynne Olson; Although men like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael grabbed the headlines, women provided not just the backbone but frequently the leadership of the civil rights movement, this punchy popular history reminds us. And not just during the 1950s and '60s: Ida Mae Wells spearheaded an...	The Future of the Race HENRY LOUIS JR GATES; In a ground-breaking collaboration, and taking the great W.E.B. Du Bois as their model, two of our foremost African-American intellectual address the dreams, fears, aspirations, and responsibilities of the black community--especially the black elite--on the eve of the twenty-first century.
Servants of the People : The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership Lea E. Williams;	George Washington Carver: In His Own Words George Washington Carver;

The Black Seminole Legacy and North American Politics, 1693-1845
Bruce Edward Twyman;

Afrolantica Legacies
Derrick A. Bell;

From Slavery to Freedom
by JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, ALFRED A. JR MOSS
This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the twentieth century.

The Divine Nine
by Lawrence C., Jr. Ross
This history of black fraternities and sororities confirms the underlying purpose of these institutions: to provide a supportive educational environment for their members during college and social and business networks beyond college. Ross notes the substantial variation on the specific...

Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
by Sylviane A. Diouf
Diouf has written one of the few works that not only chronicles the history of Muslim men, women, and children during the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, but also provides illustrated examples of how African Muslims preserved their faith and...

They Came Before Columbus
by IVAN VAN SERTIMA
This controversial book by Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, claims that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there in 1492. Citing--among other things--the huge Negroid-looking Olmec heads of Central Mexico and the similarities...

Harriet Tubman
by Catherine Clinton
Clinton has an extraordinary knack of compressing complex history into an informing brief paragraph or a single sentence, making this "first full-scale biography" of Tubman (18251913) a revelation. To the task of illuminating the "difficult to document" life of the woman known as "Moses," Clinton...

A Kid's Guide to African American History
by Nancy I. Sanders
Gr 1-5- A chronological look at the history of African Americans from the pre-slavery days in Africa through today's celebration of Kwanzaa. With a straightforward, readable text, one- to three-page topics, and simple illustrative drawings, even young children can participate in this activity-based

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