Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Afrika
Through text and illustrations, describes more than twenty African symbol systems and alphabets used on the continent and in the Diaspora.
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Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-13 : 9780977282760
$34.95
Africa Pride for Couples
Men $120
Female $120
Beautifully embroidered couple wear for a couple. Comes in medium and large. Hat not included.
$210.00
The Name "Negro" Its Origin and Evil Use
This study focuses on the exploitive nature of the word ''Negro." Tracing its origins to the African slave trade, he shows how the label "Negro" was used to separate African descendents and to confirm their supposed inferiority.
$10.95
The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront
An essay on Black-Jewish relations, primarily in the United States, by a professor of African American History who became embroiled in controversy over his classroom use of a book detailing the well- documented Jewish role in the Atlantic slave trade....
$14.99
$12.00
The Invisible Powers of the Metaphysical World: A Peep Into the World of Witches
Invisible Powers of the Metaphysical World: a peep into the world of witchesVery informative book about witches, wizards and their craft and powers.
**Important note: This is an import book, and may have fading pages and may be difficult to read...
$34.95
100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History
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Paperback : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 0912517182
ISBN-13 : 9780912517186
$9.95
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora
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Publisher : Red Sea Press
Language : English
Paperback : 60 pages
ISBN-10 : 0932415253
$15.00
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago...
$45.99
The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its...
$48.00
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Rough Crossings (Oberon Modern Plays)
Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips.As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers...
$20.99
The Rules of the Game: Struggles in Black Recreation and Social Welfare Policy in South Africa (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contempo)
Cobley presents five interconnected case studies of previously neglected aspects of recreation and social welfare policy in South Africa. He charts their historical development and poses the critical question: In shaping recreation and social welfare policy, by what rules did...
$97.50
Running The Road To ABC
This buoyant and richly illustrated ABC picture book follows six Haitian children on their way to school—a Coretta Scott King Award winner!Long before the sun even thinks of rising, the Haitian children run to school—over the hills, through the fields,...
$8.99
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
$149.50
The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro
For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a...
$90.00
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African...
$84.50
Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery
Savage Constructions composes a critical examination of the popular assumption that violence is an essential quality of certain ethnic or racial populations. Wendy Hamblet challenges the supposition, all too common in the West, that darker-skinned peoples are inherently violent. To challenge...
$71.50
Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz
Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in...
$29.95
Secular, Scarred and Sacred
Secular, Scarred and Sacred: Education and Religion Among the Black Community in Nineteenth-Century Canada focuses on the paternal yet exclusionary role of Protestant Whites and their churches among refugee slaves and free Blacks in nineteenth-century Upper Canada―many of whom had migrated...
$130.99
Shakespeare and Race
This volume draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion, identity, nationalism, and the distribution of power in Shakespeare's plays....
$113.00