Appeals for Justice in America
David Howard-Pitney
An enduring verbal tradition links African American leaders from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X to Alan Keyes
288 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Edited by Wilbur C Rich
African American political scientists speak out about their discipline, academic issues and racism in the profession.
456 pages
| 6 x 9
| 23 tables, 3 figures
A Literary Approach
Werner Sollors
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 color photos, 1 line drawing, 8 halftones
A Book of Sources
edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Abu S. Abarry
This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora
848 pages
| 7 x 10
David J. Hellwig
Essays that focus on the authors' observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade of the century through the 1980s
276 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Theoretical Futures
Edited by Grant Farred
A provocative collection committed to keeping the dynamism of the Africana Studies discipline alive
192 pages
| 6 x 9
Revised and Expanded Edition
Molefi Kete Asante
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.2
The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South
Richard A. Couto
An examination of individuals who enacted change in the status, opportunities, and treatment of African Americans in the rural South
440 pages
| 6 x 9
| 34 halftones
Basketball and the Age of Obama
Alexander Wolff
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
192 pages
| 10 x 8
| 108 color photos, 22 halftones
An Autobiography
Babatunde Olatunji and Robert Atkinson
The story of how Drums of Passion introduced Americans to West African music
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 28 halftones
Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Explores the restrictive myth of the strong black woman through interviews, revealing the emotional and physical toll this “performance” can have
194 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Helene Slessarev
A devastating account of inadequate attempts to provide economic equality for the urban poor
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 tables
African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution
edited by Lisa Brock and Digna Casteñada Fuertes, foreword by Manning Marable
The relationship between the two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery and reaching for political power, and their parallel race consciousness
289 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table 26 halftones
A New Theory of Community
Harold McDougall
Community self-help movements in Old West Baltimore provide an example of participatory democracy for other neighborhoods
272 pages
| 6 x 9
African American Urban Experiences in Film
Paula J. Massood
From Green Pastures to Hoodz
280 pages
| 6 x 9
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