Product Description: This book introduces Africana Cultures and Policy Studies as an interdisciplinary field of study, rooted in the historical experience of people of African descent and focusing on policy development, anlaysis, and practical application.

Product Description: Councilman, a young, handsome, firebrand Philadelphia legislator in desperate search of true identity and meaning, is one day faced with an anxious assassin s missing bullet, and the soaking blood of a dying man in his arms. Puzzled police investigators scratch their heads and assume it s a failed mob hit, but over time, Councilman figures there are even deadlier, more hidden powers at work...read more

Product Description: Larry Elder ands his straight talk are “controversial”*, “provocative”**, “iconoclastic”***, “refreshing”. ****IS LIFE UNFAIR FOR BLACK AMERICANS?In What’s Race Got to Do with It?, bestselling author Larry Elder takes on the touchiest topic in American life: Race...read more

Product Description: In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described “autobiographical sojourn” with a second collection of interconnected essays...read more

A thought-provoking essay on the troubling issue of racism explains how self-serving individuals and political hacks have used accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other kinds of bias to further their own agenda, in a study that blends legal analysis and anecdotes to call for the treatment of racism as a social problem requiring understanding and honest evaluation.

Book by Patterson, Collis D.

Draws on the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to study the hopes and fears of the African American community at the dawn of the twenty-first century

This critical analysis looks at the dire state of African American males and the tough challenges they face daily. Providing a holistic look at the educational, penal, and drug industries, this book condemns the institutions and standards that have declared war on black men. Why is there such a disparity between punishments for crack and cocaine? Why is 91 percent of the African American prison population illiterate? What are the effects of rampant racial profiling? Hope is provided with a discussion of institutions that have successfully developed African American men.

Product Description: First published in 1979 and long out of print, The Tribes of America is an overlooked classic—a prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting from the front lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America...read more

The nationally syndicated radio host and author of The Ten Things You Can't Say in America takes aim at politicians, celebrities, educators, journalists, sports figures, and religious leaders who promote a message of racial over-sensitivity that is detrimental to the very people whom they mean to help. Read by Larry Elder. Simultaneous.

The nationally syndicated radio host and author of The Ten Things You Can't Say in America takes aim at politicians, celebrities, educators, journalists, sports figures, and religious leaders who promote a message of racial over-sensitivity that is detrimental to the very people whom they mean to help. 100,000 first printing.

A collection of the author's previously unpublished intellectual encounters on race with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians, including Jesse Jackson, Stephen Colbert, Ann Coulter, and Ted Koppel.

In a trenchant, perceptive collection of essays, a cultural critics examines the gap between illusion and reality for the post-civil-rights generation of Americans and reflections on some of the key political, social, and cultural issues of the time, from his own rise, fall, and resurrection to the problems confronting young black males to black political empowerment. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Examines four different elements of the African American experience as well as the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, in a collection of essays based on interviews with Colin Powell, Morgan Freeman, Vernon Jordan, and other notables.

Product Description: Black America is in a state of crisis: Why are one-third of all abortions performed in America on black women? Why are 70% of all Black American children born out of wedlock? Why do Black Americans compose 49% of all Americans living with HIV ? The Death of Black America explores these questions and more in this call to action urging Black Americans to evaluate their condition and change the thought patterns and behaviors that are destroying them...read more

Identifies key problems within the black community that have resulted in the persistence of black poverty in America, including skepticism about education, hip-hop nihilism, and a politics of protest rather than meaningful action.

Product Description: An essential text to help to understand human behavior and the processes that guide human adaptation Social workers and therapists need to assess the full range of aspects of their client problems such as socioeconomic status, academic achievement, parental incarceration, psychopathology, and other risks...read more

Analyzes the African-American struggle for civil rights since the 1960s, in a book that examines the author's life from his childhood up to the present and explores the issues that African Americans face today.

Six years' worth of symposiums come together in this rich collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans, explaining how individuals and households can make changes that will immediately improve their circumstances in areas ranging from health and education to crime reduction and financial well-being. Addressing these pressing concerns are contributors Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general; Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of the research think tank PolicyLink; and Cornell West, professor of Religion at Princeton University. Each chapter outlines one key issue and provides a list of resources, suggestions for action, and a checklist for what concerned citizens can do to keep their communities progressing socially, politically, and economically. Though the African American community faces devastating social disparities--in which more than 8 million people live in poverty--this celebration of possibility, hope, and strength will help leaders and citizens keep Black America moving forward.