History
6 books
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African Europeans
Author: Olivette Otele
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans"- Published on 2021
- 272 pages
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African Europeans
Author: Olivette Otele
Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature of our 'modern' society. But as early as the third century, St Maurice--an Egyptian-- became the leader of a legendary Roman legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as 'Africans' and those called 'Europeans', right up to the stories of present-day migrants to European cities. Though at times a privileged group that facilitated exchanges between continents- Published on 2019
- 288 pages
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The Sacred Language of the Abakuá
Author: Lydia Cabrera
In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writin- Published on 2020
- 462 pages
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La lengua sagrada de los ñáñigos
Author: Lydia Cabrera
Estudios del vocabularfio Abaku . In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance,- Published on 1988
- 530 pages
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Author: Richard Wormser
Traces the African-American experience from emancipation to the Civil Rights era, discussing the contributions of top African-American leaders and heroes, the emergence of the black middle class and the intellectual elite, and the origins of the NAACP. 50,000 first printing.- Published on 2003
- 203 pages
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
Author: Carter G. Woodson
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he identifies. A must-read for anyone- Published on 2008
- 108 pages
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