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Focusing on everyday rituals, this book includes essays that look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.

Traces the evolution of the anti-apartheid movement from its origins in the 1940s through the civil rights and black power eras to its maturation in the 1980s as a force that transformed US foreign policy.

African American suffragists in the suffrage movement.

Examines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region. This book looks at several dimensions of the impact of the two interconnected revolutions on what may be called the Greater Caribbean.

The history of their literature predates Black women's acquisition of literacy. This book investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of United States and West Africa.

A study of three Harlem Renaissance poets - Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson - during a rich and colorful period. Writing from a black feminist critical perspective, it recovers these black foremothers and in the process shakes up the traditional black literary canon.

A complete and comprehensive history of the Haitian Revolution.

Contains contributions on the state of race relations from several scholars who reflect upon their careers to show how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship.

A collection of plays by contemporary Black dramatists from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the United States. This anthology contains "Death and the King's Horseman", "Edufa", "Woza Albert!", "Pantomime", "Sortilege II: Zumbi Returns", "Slave Ship", "In Splendid Error", "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", and "The Talented Tenth".

As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.

Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration. This book delineates values and institutions that the black migrant population brought with it from the South, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with blacks native to the city and the city itself.

Examines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region.

have been incorporated by black leaders and institutions to create a unique style of black political behavior." -Choice

Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies

From 1918 into the early twenties, any African American who spoke out forcefully for their race-editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This title presents an account of this story.

The impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formation

A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text

Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas.

The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual.

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. This title connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction.

People of African descent in the New World (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism. This volume embraces the challenge to probe differences embedded in Black ethnicities.

Examination of the development of racial attitudes and color prejudice.

An anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. It highlights an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders in both slave and free communities in the centuries and decades prior to the end of slavery in the US.

Cuba's social and cultural complexity interpreted through the history and expressive power of rumba.

Dealing with the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic, this title highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. It presents a picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.

Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists.

Definitive work on one of the most consequential events in the history of Atlantic slavery

Examines how Haitian diaspora writers, artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo negs, or "big men". This work confronts the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, and gays.