Product Description: 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 patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience...read more

A guide to the care of cats includes advice on diet, hygiene, grooming, safety, illnesses, neutering, behavior problems, and other aspects of owning a cat

Product Description: African American Consciousness focuses on ideas of culture, race, and class within the interdisciplinary matrix of Africana Studies. Even more important, it uses a methodology that emphasizes interpretation and the necessity of interdisciplinary research and writing in a global society...read more

'Have civil rights for African Americans been furthered, or maintained, in the decades since the Civil Rights movement began? The movement is perceived as having regressed, with issues hidden. With a view to assessing losses and gains, this collection of17 essays examines the evolution and perception of the African American civil rights movement from inception through today'--Provided by publisher.

As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing debating, and preserving the study of African world history. His unique style and analysis postured from a Pan Africanist perspective, is one of the lasting contributions Clarke dispensed to students and life long learners. This volume is a compilation of unpublished critical essays solicited by selected scholars and reprinted articles of Clarke. The subject categories are in the subject areas of: Critical essays, Black Nationalism, Africana thought and biography, Africana historiography, narratives, and global Pan Africanist political thought. Moreover, in reviewing the scholarship of Clarke, he sequentially queried the privilege of selected cultural groups and the systematic subordination of others. Indeed, these questions regulate the parameters of who decides who gets what and why Clarke was concerned about issues of equity, but prioritized issues and schema of moral and ethical behavior of humans. Still with and ardent and critical analysis concerning the status of Africa world affairs, Clarke was a humanist, who dedicated himself to the advance the social, political, and economic condition of African people throughout the world.

Product Description: Interdisciplinary essays by fourteen scholars that discuss the following associated topics: 1. Global Pan-Africanism. 2. The intellectual ideas of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. 3. The cultural and economic ideas of Marcus Garvey. 4. A critical assessment of Africana historiography.

Product Description: The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.

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Product Description: This collection of essays probes the enslavement of African people from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines Europe, the Carribean, the United States, and indentured servitude in Africa itself, grouping the essays under the headings of "Africans in Europe", "Africans in the Caribbean", "Enslavement of Africa" and "Blacks in America"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact upon African American culture and traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this collection of compelling essays, scholars critically examine the history, culture, and social policies that surround the African Diaspora and explore how these have shaped the experiences of African-Americans today. The essays address a wide range of related topics that include historical perspectives on black clergy, the historical significance of black poetry and literature, the place of black studies in the academy, racism on campuses, and issues concerning social work...read more

Product Description: This work pursues to critically probe Black American Intellectualism and Culture in the organizational construct of intellectual studies; cultural studies; literary studies; and social thought. Accent has been placed on an interdisciplinary focus of examining the ethos and memory of Africana people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of 18 essays representing a range of disciplines and approaches to the issues and schema of economic, cultural, political, historical, and policy conditions as they pertain to the social psychology of Black Americans and Africans...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Analyzes the lives and the biographies of African American writers and other notable individuals, and discusses oral history and biography as teaching tools (view table of contents)

Product Description: Bringing together material from disparate sources, including unpublished writings, this first-of-its-kind study presents selected essays by Charles H. Wesley, one of the leading African American intellectuals of the twentieth century and a pioneer in Black Studies scholarship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)