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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature
Feminist Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference,...
Olive Schreiner and African Modernism
Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This bookworks across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a theorist...
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia
Language, Culture, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations about the cultures...
Black Mecca
The African Muslims of Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' These immigrants are immediately recognizable as African in their wide-sleeved robes and tasseled hats, but...
Trust in Black America
Race, Discrimination, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Rather than promoting democracy, the United...
Diasporic Africa
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora...
Overcoming the Odds
Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous...
African Americans and Mass Media
A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing media monopolies and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding...
Black Television Travels
African American Media around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore,...
African Americans by the Numbers: Understanding and Interpreting Statistics on African American Life
African Americans by the Numbers: Understanding and Interpreting Statistics on African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Provides an invaluable source for students as well as academics on the current condition of African Americans, highlighting disparities throughout an array of social, economic, and political areas.
• Clearly outlines the condition of African Americans in relation to other races and ethnic...
Food and Foodways in African Narratives
Community, Culture, and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the community, culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways, including the literature and narratives of each region. Across the African...
Reckoning Day
Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar...
Education as Freedom
African American Educational Thought and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...