Author: Lipsitz, George Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carried the picket signs, and planned and participated in...
Author: Bhatia, Nandi Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistan...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and reli...
Author: Bracks, Lean'tin Publisher: Visible Ink Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving...
Author: Hecht, Michael L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cultural analysis of African American communication, with emphasis on identity, rules, & strategies that characterize communication for group members. For advanced students/scholars in intercultural/i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKS OF 2009 by Kam Williams - Internationally Renowned Book, Film and Music Critic Considered to be the most important book published in the eleven year...
Author: Wimberly, Edward P. Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Respond to God’s unfolding drama to bring healing and reconciliation. In this major revision of his classic book, Dr. Edward Wimberly updates his narrative methodology by examining current issues...
Author: Kanneh, Kadiatu Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fascinating and thoughtful analysis explores the meanings associated with "Africa" and "Blackness" throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documen...
Author: Haight, Wendy Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: African-American Children at Church explores African-American socialization beliefs and practices, based on findings of a unique, four-year long study in a Baptist church in Salt Lake City, Utah. By ...
Author: Minchin, Timothy Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by ...
Author: Minchin, Timothy J. / Salmond, John A. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by ...
Author: Kang, Kevin / Yun, David Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a collection of three life stories by three Korean high school students in New York and New Jersey. Hojae Jin is a senior at Tenafly High School in New Jersey. Kevin Kang is a senior at a...
Author: Hassett, Miranda K. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The sign outside the conservative, white church in the small southern U.S. town announces that the church is part of the Episcopal Church--of Rwanda. In Anglican Communion in Crisis, Miranda Hassett t...
Author: Toelken, Barre Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After a career working and living with American Indians and studying their traditions, Barre Toelken has written this sweeping study of Native American folklore in the West. Within a framework of perf...
Author: SANON, KELETI Publisher: mandingo publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What will you find when you read through the pages of Keleti Sanon's Another Chance, Maybe the Last? In the foreword, author Marilynn Griffith talks about her own experience as a child of...
Author: Collins, M. Helena Vanderlei Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Me...
Description: This book examines the evolving multilateral security arrangements in East Asia, with a focus on the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It explores the function and relevance ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the evolving multilateral security arrangements in East Asia, with a focus on the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It explores the function and relevance ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Asian American Studies Now represents the changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American s...
Author: Bhatti, Ghazala Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>This ethnographic study of a comprehensive school in the south of England explores the views of teachers, Asian parents and their children concerning education and schooling. Young people bet...
Author: Mostern, Kenneth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process that persistently places African Americans in the p...
Author: Perkins, Margo V. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Powe...
Author: Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Victoria Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black coll...
Author: Keevak, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingne...
Author: hooks, bell Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cul...
Author: Baker, Houston A. Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the intere...
Author: Taylor, Shawn Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Being black and male is serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculi...
Author: Khanna, Nikki Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American President of the United States. Though recognized as the son of his white Kansas-born mother and his Kenyan father, the media a...
Author: Gregory, Steven Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that bl...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue pers...
Author: Morris, Robert V. Publisher: Zenith Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This commemoration of African-Americans in the U.S. military includes contributions from W. Stephen Morris and Luther H. Smith, one of the most-celebrated Tuskegee Airmen. Other black military heroes ...
Author: Morris, Robert V. Publisher: Zenith Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Booklist, February 2011 “The history of African Americans and the military is complicated by blacks' efforts to fight for recognition as citizens to be able to serve in the military as well as t...
Author: Connor, Michael E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The purpose of this book is to get beyond the African American father "invisiblity" syndrome and gloom and doom pathology oriented labels, and tell another side of the story about the power of fatheri...
Author: Fisher, Maisha T. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers an innovative approach to understanding the multi-dimensional perspectives of Black literate lives in the U.S. It demonstrates the ways that "minority" groups keep their practices ali...
Author: Watkins, Rychetta Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The "guerilla" figure-taking the form of the black-leather-clad revolutionary...
Author: Sowell, Thomas Publisher: Encounter Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed...
Author: Collins, Patricia Hill Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Black Sexual Politics , one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread...
Author: Michael, Eric Dyson Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the moment then nineteen-year-old Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album the hip-hop world was forever changed. Released in 1994, Illmatic, was hailed as a masterpiece and i...
Author: Aschheim, Steven E. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brothers and Strangers traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between East...
