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Black Power

Author: Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton

An explanation of the ideology and desired political framework of the Black Power movement in America
- Published on 1992
- 230 pages
Submitted June 27
Black Skin, White Masks

Author: Frantz Fanon

An updated translation of the author's seminal work on black identity and race theory offers insight into its influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements throughout the world. Original.
- Published on 2008
- 206 pages
Submitted June 27
Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies

Author: Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr.

This work argues that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.
- Published on 2015
- 230 pages
Submitted June 27
Visions for Black Men

Author: Naʼim Akbar

How do we restore African manhood to those whom the society has not viewed as the chosen people? Discover the startling prediction of the mystical tradition of Ancient Africa-- that the descendants of a once great nation will raise again.
- Published on 1991
- 90 pages
Submitted June 27
Post-Conflict Memorialization

Author: Olivette Otele, Luisa Gandolfo and Yoav Galai

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasu
- Published on 2021
- 260 pages
Submitted June 3
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Author: Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a 1972 book written by Walter Rodney that describes how Africa was deliberately exploited and underdeveloped by European colonial regimes. One of his main arguments throughout the book is that Africa developed Europe at the same rate as Europe underdeveloped Africa.
- Published on 1972
- 316 pages
Submitted May 31
The Black Atlantic

Author: Paul Gilroy

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultur
- Published on 1993
- 261 pages
Submitted May 19
The Ways of White Folks

Author: Langston Hughes

In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
- Published on 1990
- 255 pages
Submitted May 19
Handbook of African American Psychology

Author: Helen A. Neville, Brendesha M. Tynes and Shawn O. Utsey

The Handbook of African American Psychology provides a comprehensive guide to current developments in African American psychology. It presents theoretical, empirical, and practical issues that are foundational to African American psychology. It synthesizes the debates in the field and research designed to understand the psychological, cognitive, and behavioral development of African Americans. The breadth and depth of the coverage in this handbook offers both foundational material and current de
- Published on 2008
- 584 pages
Submitted May 14
Sellout

Author: Randall Kennedy

Addresses the meaning and issue of "selling out," analyzing the ways in which the term is used by both blacks and whites, as well as its influence on both individuals and society as a whole.
- Published on 2008
- 228 pages
Submitted May 14
Interracial Intimacies

Author: Randall Kennedy

Sheds new light on the issue of personal interracial intimacy, discussing such issues as sex in racial politics, race in sexual politics, racial boundaries, and arguments for and against interracial romance, sex, and family life.
- Published on 2004
- 676 pages
Submitted May 14