Emi - African-American Studies 1

The Yoruba Practitioner's Training Compendium offers a comprehensive study of Yoruba spirituality by combining two core texts into a single volume: The Yoruba Spiritual Training Manual & The Sacred ……続きを見る

Black women are facing a systemic gynecological health crisis. This book gives them the tools needed to unlearn the medical normalization of their suffering and offers a path forward to healingーby ……続きを見る

In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which wa……続きを見る

O que se entende por identidade em discursos proferidos tanto por progressistas quanto por conservadores, contra o "identitarismo"? Neste livro, Táíwò oferece um panorama crítico da identidade como ……続きを見る

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations……続きを見る

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance pa……続きを見る

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are……続きを見る

A thought-provoking sociological and theoretical examination of race relations in the United States. Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and syst……続きを見る

Change everything you thought you knew about history and the people who have shaped it with Black History for Every Day of the Year. By historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yink……続きを見る

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew o……続きを見る

University professor Stephanie Y. Mitchem's African American Folk Healing is "an exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing." Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter ……続きを見る

Finalist, Weber-Clements Prize Luminaries of the Harlem RenaissanceーLangston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among othersーare associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the s……続きを見る

From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a "beautifully written and thought-provoking" memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeito……続きを見る

While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the majo……続きを見る

African Americans' unique encounter with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and the social engagement of a whole continent. In The Bible and African Americans, highly respected biblical ……続きを見る

**Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize Shortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner Award Honorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Out……続きを見る

The Civil Rights Act of 1960 aimed to close loopholes in its 1957 predecessor that had allowed continued voter disenfranchisement for African Americans and for Mexicans in Texas. In early 1959, the ……続きを見る

In histories of enslavement and in Black women’s history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulatedーe……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University) 2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner 2023 Hooks National Book……続きを見る

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock a……続きを見る

Volume V of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. records the successful effort to pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act: the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875. Prior to the US Supreme Court’……続きを見る

How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and ……続きを見る

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irr……続きを見る

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by ex……続きを見る

In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans fro……続きを見る

Between 1877 and 1930 ー years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and “the Negro problem” ー African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and powe……続きを見る

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From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. Howev……続きを見る

Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its ……続きを見る

Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different imp……続きを見る