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

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

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

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

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

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

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
• Collects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs. Born in the rural American south, James Boggs liv... Lees meer

Three Plays

Tess Akaeke Onwueme

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• This anthology of plays allows a glimpse into the lives of the people of Onwueme's native Nigeria and reveals the range and beauty of Nigerian culture... 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

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

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

Keepin' It Hushed

Vorris L Nunley

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater. In Keepin' It Hu... Lees meer

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam Greenlee

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the ... Lees meer

Race and Ideology

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Race and Ideology proposes an understanding of racism as a divide-and-conquer mechanism. Race and Ideology reveals how various strands of racial think... Lees meer

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harl... Lees meer

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora

Ronald W Walters

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Based on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, and text studies Pan-Af... Lees meer

Interest Groups and Education Reform

Veronica Donahue Is a Manager for Voter N Diconti

• Hardcover | Engels | African American Life
• During the 1980s, the education policy agenda proceeded from a consensus reached by politicians, the business community and educators to restructure t... Lees meer

Voices of the Self

Keith Gilyard, Melba Joyce Boyd

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• An exploration of the key issues of language education for African Americans. A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of the ... Lees meer

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam Greenlee

• Paperback | Engels | African American Life
• Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and ho... Lees meer