Diasporic Africa Press: 28 books
by Kwesi Yankah
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies...
Mottak
An African Tale of Immigration and Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Imagine being stranded in the heart of winter, in an isolated town at the northern edge of the world. Though born on the continent of Africa, political officials have made citizenship and social mobility at home difficult for many youth and young adults to realize. And so some flee to Europe, seeking...
by A. Adu Boahen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in 1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The present volume is quite different from the other two autobiographies by Du Bois not only because of its additional two-decade span, and the significantly altered outlook of its author, but also because in it—unlike the others—he seeks, as he writes, "to review my life as frankly and fully...
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Carter G. Woodson's classic text on the emergence of African American churches, chronicling their story out of the eighteenth-century evangelical revivals and their transformations through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is important for reasons other than "black church" history. With...
Freedom by a Thread
The History of Quilombos in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil *brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of *quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades...
Marvel's Black Panther
A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. Through a textual analysis, this book narrates the history of the character from his first appearance in 1966—the same year, the Black Panther Party...
The Ox and the Slave
A Satirical Music Drama in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the communal creative process of music and discusses the process of music change in Bumba-meu-Boi, and provides an example of exo-semantic analysis in the quest for the truth of this folk drama in Brazil. It argues that Bumba-meu-Boi sheds light on eighteenth...
Warrior Princess
A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells is the story of a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She...
Discourse on Africana Studies
James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writings by James Turner and commentary from several of his former students. The book strives to underscore critical connections between multiple dimensions of Turner’s...
by Gillian Lee-Fong
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Abebi tells the story of the incredible journey of a female warrior and apprentice healer of the Come-if-yuh-Dare Maroons, a mythical seventeenth century band of runaway slaves in the Jamaica Blue Mountains. When her idyllic life is violently upended by a series of natural and spiritual disasters,...
Legacy of the Crossing
Life, Death, and Triumph among the Descendants of the World's Largest Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2017
International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD) was a multidisciplinary conference that explored the health condition of African descendants and what could be done to improve their health outcomes. e conference addressed a range of intersecting topics, including maternal and...
by Tierno Monénembo
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
*The Black Terrorist *is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi Bâ. Addi Bâ was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the Twelfth Regiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (African soldiers from French...
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