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The Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Hirji makes a case that Rodney's seminal work retains its value for understanding where Africa has come from, where it is going, and charting the path towards genuine development for its people. It is a succinct, coherent defense of an...
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Africology and the African Diaspora: Agency, Culture, and Change (Not Yet Released)
Examining the African Diaspora in Africology, this book explores the fundamental issues involving the dispersion of Africans from antiquity to the current era.One of the most quoted living Africology scholars in the world, Molefi Kete Asante has partnered with scholars...
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Research Made Easy: An Afrocentric Handbook for Students and Supervisors of Academic Research
This book offers a critical pathway to decolonizing research space for students and supervisors across academic disciplines. Framed by a multi-disciplinary, anti-Eurocentric perspective, it thoroughly interrogates the decades of Western hegemony that have wrongly framed research as a monolithic, complex,...
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Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership (Hardcover)
A new perspective on women’s Black Power leadership legaciesAcademics and popular commentors have expressed common sentiments about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s―that it was male dominated and overrun with autocratic leaders. Yet women’s strategizing, management, and...
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Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us (Hardcover)
The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers.In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the United States of America has...
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African Drumming: The History and Continuity of African Drumming Traditions
African Drumming The History and Continuity of African Drumming Traditions has been inspired by the need to document and share African drumming traditions. Amegago draws from his life-long research in African drumming, music and dance, arts and cultures to compose...
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Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era (Paperback)
A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-Ervin Driven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during the pivotal decade...
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Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots (Hardcover)
A mysterious name initiates a journey to discover one family's past, and reveals more than was expectedIt began with a name. Sancho. Gleaned from the memory of his oldest living relative, that name set author Keith Rushing on a quest...
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (Hardcover)
The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of the most important—if since forgotten—revolutionary figures of the twentieth century in the...
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The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic (Hardcover)
BookRiot's Best New Nonfiction | NPR's New Books to Read | Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Book A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose magic gave rise to the rich tapestry of American culture, wellness, and spirituality that we see today—from...
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The Chancellor's Mansion: A Renovation Story of Family, Home, History, and Mystery (Hardcover)
he breathtaking story of one family’s journey to restore, renovate, and preserve a historic mansion. It’s a million-dollar project with gorgeous potential—and many challenges.THE CHANCELLOR’S MANSION was built by William Townsend McCoun, a public servant and abolitionist in New York City....
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The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice (Paperback)
A brutal murder. A blighted investigation. The true story of five men damned by a crime they didn’t commit. On Valentine’s Day 1988, twenty-year-old Lynette White was brutally murdered in a dark corner of Cardiff’s world-famous, and infamous, Tiger Bay....
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The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (Hardcover)
How do good people find the courage to resist and end the greatest evil in their country? An untold story of the Civil War Era: pacifists in Boston who led the fight to end slavery without violence and war.Has there...
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Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 (Hardcover)
From “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women’s suffrageIn 1840, millions...
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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore (Hardcover)
Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black...
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Black Women Freedom Fighters: Profiles in the Struggle Against Slavery (Paperback)
During the antebellum period, African American women were at the center of the nation's battle between slavery and liberty as the country moved closer to civil war. Their resistance added momentum to the abolition movement and led to a more...
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Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston (Hardcover)
The first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in Texas On the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one...
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Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (Hardcover)
How white psychiatrists pathologized African American religionsIn the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for...
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Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great Migration (Paperback)
The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major urban centers like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit, and changed the...
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