The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

William Sanders Scarborough

• Hardcover | Engels | African American Life
• An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist an... Lees meer

The Concept of Self

Richard L Allen

• Hardcover | Engels | African American Life
• The Concept of Self examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually, and ho... Lees meer

Manipulating the Sacred

Mikelle S Omari-Tunkara

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of ... Lees meer

Bobweaving Detroit

Murray Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit's glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in i... Lees meer

Roses and Revolutions

Dudley Randall

• Hardcover | Engels | African American Life
• Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall. Dudley Randall was one of the... Lees meer

The Politics of Black Empowerment

James Jennings

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black politic... Lees meer

From Bourgeois to Boojie

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances, editor Vershawn Ashanti Young and assistant editor Bridget Harris Tsemo collect a divers... Lees meer

Walkin' Over Medicine

Loudell F Snow

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Representing more than twenty years of anthropological research, Walkin' over Medicine, originally published by Westview Press in 1993, presents the r... Lees meer

The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

William Sanders Scarborough

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist an... Lees meer

What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three

Ron Milner

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960... Lees meer

The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young's most memorable quotes. This little red book brings together... Lees meer

Roots of African American Drama

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers. While many historically significant or interesting plays by white... Lees meer

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook

James Boggs

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years whil... Lees meer

Three Plays

Tess Akaeke Onwueme

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• This anthology of plays by Tess Onwueme, one of the bright new literary artists in contemporary drama, allows a glimpse into the lives of the people o... Lees meer

Discarded Legacy

Melba Joyce Boyd

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Frances E. W. Harper is a central figure in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American literature and intellectual thought. The... Lees meer

Mirar Adentro/Looking Within

Nancy Morejón

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet. The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejón set out at a young age to explore the beauty and comp... Lees meer

Race and Remembrance

Arthur L Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | African American Life
• Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson. Race and Remembrance tells the remarkable life story of Arthur L. Johnson... Lees meer

Look for Me All Around You

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance. Interdis... Lees meer

White Nationalism, Black Interests

Ronald W Walters

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A study of the most racially conscious aspect of the Conservative movement and its impact on politics and current public policy. The rise of the Conse... Lees meer

Just for a Thrill

Geoffrey Jacques

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice. "Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read widely and has ... Lees meer

When the Church Becomes Your Party

Deborah Smith Pollard

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• In When the Church Becomes Your Party, author Deborah Smith Pollard assesses contemporary gospel music as the genre enters the twenty-first century. S... Lees meer

Dreaming Suburbia

Amy Maria Kenyon

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom. Dreaming Suburbia ... Lees meer

Caribbean Labor and Politics

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radi... Lees meer

If We Must Die

Aimé J Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial ter... Lees meer