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Examines the intersection of race, class, gender, and politics within the structure of a pivotal NAACP chapter.

Was Mau Mau a national effort or an ethnic outburst? What were its political aims? Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya African Union; and the impact of Mau Mau on decolonization in Kenya.

Gerard Aching is Professor of Africana and Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design and Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean.

Focusing on everyday rituals, this book includes essays that look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.

Traces the evolution of the anti-apartheid movement from its origins in the 1940s through the civil rights and black power eras to its maturation in the 1980s as a force that transformed US foreign policy.

African American suffragists in the suffrage movement.

Examines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region. This book looks at several dimensions of the impact of the two interconnected revolutions on what may be called the Greater Caribbean.

The history of their literature predates Black women's acquisition of literacy. This book investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of United States and West Africa.

A study of three Harlem Renaissance poets - Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson - during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feminist critical perspective, it recovers these black foremothers and in the process shakes up the traditional black literary canon.

Concerned with the political and intellectual history of African peoples in the Americas

A complete and comprehensive history of the Haitian Revolution.

Black community building was not a smooth or conflict-free process. This study focuses on how industrial workers, social workers, ministers, politicians, protest leaders, business and professional people, housewives, youth, and a range of community institutions and organizations all contributed to the process.

The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country over the years. This collection of essays is written by a leading American historian.

Contains contributions on the state of race relations from several scholars who reflect upon their careers to show how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship.

Focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the 20th century. The author confronts issues of Caribbean immigrant and black American relations, placing their interaction in the context of community formation.

A collection of plays by contemporary Black dramatists from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States. This anthology contains "Death and the King's Horseman", "Edufa", "Woza Albert!", "Pantomime", "Sortilege II: Zumbi Returns", "Slave Ship", "In Splendid Error", "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", and "The Talented Tenth".

As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.

Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration. This book delineates values and institutions that the black migrant population brought with it from the South, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with blacks native to the city and the city itself.

Examines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region.

Traces the history of African Americans in policing, from the appointment of the first 'free men of color' as slave patrollers in 19th-century New Orleans to the advent of black police chiefs in urban centres. This title explains the impact of black police officers on race relations, law enforcement, and crime.

have been incorporated by black leaders and institutions to create a unique style of black political behavior." -Choice

Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

Addresses broader issues such as power relations within Caribbean slavery, multiculturalism, and the forms of religious accommodation to cultural change. This book examines the religion's transatlantic route through Cuban Santeria, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, and Black Nationalism.

From 1918 into the early twenties, any African American who spoke out forcefully for their race-editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This title presents an account of this story.

The impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formation

A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text

Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas.

The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual.

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. This title connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction.