Product Description: Included in this book are 23 essays that discuss contemporary issues and ideological perspectives of the Black experience.

"The history of African American women has become an important topic in the intellectual life of this country in the last fifteen years; and Darlene Clark Hine has been one of those most responsible for bringing the subject to its current level of importance." ―from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin"In this absolutely needed collection of essays by one of the leading American historians of our generation, the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon." ―Susan M. Reverby, Luella LaMer Associate Professor for Women’s Studies, Wellesley College (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Thirty years haave passed since insurgent students compelled the inclusion of Black Studies into the curriculum of colleges and universities. Born out of centuries of of freedom struggles, Black Studies challenges the exclusion, marginalization, and oppression of people of color within and outside the academy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Giddings (Africana studies, Antioch College) discusses how the three intellectual systems of Kawaida, Black psychology, and Afrocentricity combat Western hegemony and facilitate African American cultural liberation through culture corrective theory and praxis...read more

Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poet’s father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of national and international significance, human and environmental rights, and speaks against injustice no matter who the oppressed or the oppressors are or where they come from. Ahmadu Fulani is a book of performance poetry, exploring oral performance traditions of Ilorin and Sokoto cultures, from Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani traditions of Nigeria and West Africa. From memorial contours, to social inquiry, to praise and mobilization poems, readers would need to perform the poems in order to realize their full meanings and literary aesthetics. A person can perform this poetry alone at home, or with others in the classroom or at the market square. Even the poems that doe not have refrains can be read with performance flavor. As in his first volume, Almajiri, Na’Allah continues the invocation of street poetry tradition of the Nigerian street beggars, oral singers, and children and adults selling goods and services and chanting poetry on the Nigerian streets.

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