Braided Relations, Entwined Lives

Cynthia M Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." --Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charl... Lees meer

Africans in Colonial Mexico

Herman L Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction of new world identities. . . . Bennett does a masterful job." --Judith A. Byfield,... Lees meer

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850 1920

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributi... Lees meer

A Refuge in Thunder

Rachel E Harding

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identi... Lees meer

Screenplays of the African-American Experience

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection b... Lees meer

Race and the Literary Encounter

Lesley Larkin

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'unive... Lees meer

Blood Relations

Irma Watkins-Owens

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• In Blood Relations, Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decad... Lees meer

The Slave's Rebellion

Adélékè Adéèkó

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual strug... Lees meer

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

A B Christa Schwarz

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Heretofore scholars have not been willing--perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal--to identify much of the Harlem Rena... Lees meer

Seizing the New Day

Wilbert L Jenkins

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written. . . . an excellent model for others who would stu... Lees meer

Black Police in America

W Marvin Dulaney

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Clear, concise, and filled with new materials, the book sets a high standard . . . Scholars in African American, police, and urban history will all b... Lees meer

Santeria from Africa to the New World

George Brandon

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexitie... Lees meer

Colonial Blackness

Herman L Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfigu... Lees meer

Cuba's Racial Crucible

Karen Y Morrison

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cuban... Lees meer

Binding Cultures

Gay Wilentz

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." --Nellie McKay "Wilentz's jargon-fre... Lees meer

Between Slavery and Freedom

Howard McGary Jr, Bill E Lawson

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Using the writings of slaves and former slaves, as well as commentaries on slavery, Between Slavery and Freedom explores the American slave experience... Lees meer

African Cinema

Manthia Daiwara, Manthia Diawara

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• "Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." --Robert Stam "Diawara has produced a useful ... Lees meer

Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

Jack M Bloom

• Hardcover | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it, Jack M. Bloom analyzes the intera... Lees meer

Word, Image, and the New Negro

Anne Elizabeth Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• This book focuses on the collaborative illustrated volumes published during the Harlem Renaissance, in which African Americans used written and visual... Lees meer

Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic; it highlights the importance of archaeology in comple... Lees meer

Fugitive Vision

Michael A Chaney

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines the wri... Lees meer

Free and French in the Caribbean

John Patrick Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• In Free and French in the Caribbean , John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived o... Lees meer

Contemporary African American Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contempo... Lees meer

Beyond Coloniality

Aaron Kamugisha

• Hardcover | Engels | Blacks in the Diaspora
• Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbea... Lees meer