African History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 8

Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal

Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

Patricia Williams Dockery

Abolition and the African American Story

"The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction from the African American point of view"-- Provided by publisher.

Korey Garibaldi

Impermanent Blackness

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness , Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collabora…

History Of American Fol

Brian Kwoba

Hubert Harrison

"The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) -as a journalist, activist, and educator- lies in his innovation of radical solutions to grave injustices, especially the staggering luxury for …

We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

Kim Chandler Vaccaro

Mura Dehn

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United Sta…

Kim Chandler Vaccaro

Mura Dehn

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United Sta…

David Greenberg

John Lewis

New York Times Book ReviewTop 100 Books of 2024Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congres…

A'Lelia Bundles

Joy Goddess

"Raucously immersive...An intimate portrait of Black opulence in the early 20th century." ---Oprah DailyA "scintillating, vibrant" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) and deeply rese…

Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte

Translating His-Stories

Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can var…

Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte

Translating His-Stories

Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can var…

Marlee S Bunch

Unlearning the Hush

Listening to Black women share their life experiences as educatorsDespite significant challenges and historical opposition, Black female teachers stood at the forefront of advocating for and providing edu…

Barnaby Phillips

The African Kingdom of Gold

Power. Empire. Plunder. The forgotten history of Britain and the Asante gold.Kumasi is burning. British soldiers prowl the streets, stoking the fires. The royal palace is filled with explosives and razed,…

Race and Resistance in Boston

Race and Resistance in Boston reconstructs the history of Black sport in Boston, from amateur to professional, reimagining the crucial role it played in shaping the city's racial identity.

Nana Osei Quarshie

African Pharmakon

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out.For centuries, mental distress in West Africa h…

Morris MacGregor

The Emergence of a Black Catholic Community

Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well …

Maurice J Hobson, Eddie R Cole, Jim C Harper, Derrick P Alridge

With Faith in God and Heart and Mind

When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 7, 1911, at Howard University, they could not have known how…

Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…