African Life and Customs is a must-have compilation of Edward Wilmont Blyden's papers about African society's socioeconomic structure. Blyden (1832-1912), a native of St. Thomas, West Indies, spent the majority of his life in the African continent. He was a skilled educator, linguist, writer, and global traveler who passionately championed Africa's and its people's distinctive characteristics. Blyden looked at the…
The author traces the rise of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the postwar boom in the integrated North, demonstrating how, along the way to what appeared to be prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks lost touch with their traditional black roots while never receiving recognition from the white sector. According to Frazier, the consequence is an odd bourgeois…
Only a few days before the author's death, Blood In My Eye was completed. During an attempted attempted escape, George Jackson was killed by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971. George Jackson was convicted of stealing $70 from a petrol station at the age of eighteen and was sentenced to one year to life in prison. He was…
David Walker's Appeal is a resolutely African-centered rhetoric that criticizes white injustice and promotes Black self-reliance. Its release in 1830 heightened the discussion and opposition against slavery. The Appeal is a foundational document from which many present topics in Black political philosophy have grown. It is more than a protest against slavery.
It is critical to address Manhood Issues in all of their complexities. The very suggestion of manhood elicits heated debate: polarization. Manhood appears to be a fluid concept that is constantly challenged and charged. Manhood stokes discussion and search for an alternative, even overthrow of the existing quo, in light of conduct that is usually confused, aggressive, occasionally immature, and…
This book documents changes in women's home reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that occurred during colonial authority, based on rare oral evidence from women participants in the Mau Mau insurrection.
One of the most important works on education ever published is The Mis-Education of the Negro. Carter G. Woodson demonstrates the flaws of Eurocentric curriculums that ignore African American history and culture. This system miseducates African American students, failing to prepare them for success and providing them with a sufficien t understanding of who they are within the system in…
