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Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative……続きを見る

Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from political persecution and for better livelihoods. Thi……続きを見る

Blacks are moving in the right direction but at a snail’s pace. The race has a long way to go before it can be on parity with its white counterparts. However, it seems that some aspects are improvin……続きを見る

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the Afr……続きを見る

A Push from Below: How the Black Power Movement Changed Higher Education The purpose of this research was to study the link between the Black Power Movement and changes that occurred in higher educa……続きを見る

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Bro……続きを見る

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listene……続きを見る

Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchyーdivas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is equally contradictory, as they are simultaneously venerated and marginalized, h……続きを見る

Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom……続きを見る

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of cla……続きを見る

This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked t……続きを見る

This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC a……続きを見る

In looking back on his editorship of Crisis magazine*,* W. E. B. Du Bois said, “We condensed more news about Negroes and their problems in a month than most colored papers before this had published ……続きを見る

Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC’s gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the governmen……続きを見る

Observations from the lives of African American domestic workersーback in print Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an exploration of the lives of African American domestic workers in cities thr……続きを見る

In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: “I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be.”……続きを見る

This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text e……続きを見る

This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities……続きを見る

Short Story day africabrings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. The theme ……続きを見る

Although the United States spends almost one-fifth of all its resources funding healthcare, the American system continues to be dogged by persistent inequities in the treatment of racial and ethnic ……続きを見る

African American Philosophy and African American Philosophers have played a central role in understanding and also shaping what it means to be black in America. Some of their conclusions were reacti……続きを見る

"Twelve Years a Slave" is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup was born to a free family in July 1808 in Minerva, New York. His father, reared in slavery, was fr……続きを見る

Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and for……続きを見る

2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist 2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) Best-of Lists: Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (Th……続きを見る

Affirmative action has been fiercely debated for more than a quarter of a century, producing much partisan literature, but little serious scholarship and almost nothing on its cultural and political……続きを見る

In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expressionーrap. A frank……続きを見る

2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Honorable Mention for Adventure, Sports & Rec 2020 Nebraska Book Award Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships……続きを見る

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal o……続きを見る

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their inter……続きを見る

So many parts of society target citizens of color for violence--what can be done? Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color examines violence from a structural perspective, including violence in pri……続きを見る