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Brown, N. M.

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Nelson, Angela M. S.

Explores the meaning, motif, and theme of rhythm in black cultures in the United States and Africa.

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From the Publisher:12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include wor

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Hare, Bruce R.

This collection of works is a comprehensive look at the African American way of life, African American scholarship, and African American sociologists.

These seventeen essays by African American sociologists bring into sharp focus the continuing significance of racism in America as it affects the lives and opportunities of African Americans and all Americans in the new century.

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Dumas, Jimmy

Those who work with youth are perplexed about the hip-hop culture's influence on today's African American teens. This book provides an in-depth look at this culture, its values, fashion trends, music, sexuality, and view of the future. Implications of hip-hop on academic achievement, family stability, and youth's involvement in the marketplace are explored.

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Wilson, Byron F.

"44 Questions for Black America" is a fresh new look at the racial dynamic of the United States. Author Byron F. Wilson addresses Black American issues with unyielding honesty and conviction, and holds both white and Black Americans accountable for Black America's less than desirable condition. His controversial, no holds barred approach examines our world with a fearlessly aggressive mix of research and editorial conclusion. Wilson not only exposes the problems, but also offers realistic solutions, a practice rarely seen in similar literary works. "44 Questions" offers Black America a new sense of direction by replacing hope with action.

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Milio, Nancy

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's "9226 Kercheval," a groundbreaking book which analyzes the success of the Mom and Tots Center in urban Detroit in the late 1960s. At the time of its first publication, Robert Coles called the book "rare and extremely important" and remarked, "I can only hope that all those concerned with urban problems might read this unusual and inspiring book."
Milio adds a new Preface to update readers on the fate of the center and the issues of poverty and health care which continue today.
From the original Preface:
"This is the story of a venture in the ghetto, of the development of a ghetto health project which still lives, and of its meaning as I saw it as director. It is a tale told twice, in alternating sections: first as a factual account of events, then as a personal interpretation of those events--the story from the inside of the white outsider who was present. . . . The unfolding is literally and allegorically a story of involvement and change, the evolution of a new institution and of the people who made it. It is, in its parallel construction here, the public and private stories behind a benignly named storefront in a Detroit ghetto, the Mom and Tots Center, and of the inevitable intertwining of the two. . . . This book does say at least two things. First that health, as quality of life, as 'wholeness, unfolding, ' must be mirrored in the process of undertakings intended to improve health. And that those who would involve others, especially the poor, in the process of healthful change, must themselves be involved: the one who would change others must himself bechanged."
Nancy Milio is Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Professor of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the author of "Engines of Empowerment: Using Information Technology to Create Healthy Communities and Challenge Public Policy" and "Nutrition Policy for Food Rich Countries: A Strategic Analysis," among others.

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Lott, Tommy L.

This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. Topics covered include philosophic traditions; the moral and political legacy of slavery; Africa and diaspora thought; gender, race, and racism; legal and social philosophy; and aesthetics and cultural values. The volume provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought by leading authorities. Addressing key themes, it will serve as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, legal studies, liberal studies, cultural studies, American studies, and African-American studies.

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Gordon, Jane Anna

A Companion to African-American Studies is a groundbreaking reappraisal of the history and future of African-American Studies. Each original essay by an expert scholar in the field covers its topic with authority and clarity. This book is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies. Bringing together a dazzling array of established and emergent voices, the Companion opens with a series of reflections from those who waged pitched battles to establish African-American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline. Students and scholars will find this to be an exciting and comprehensive overview, and an ideal resource for study and further research.

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Steele, Shelby

From the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character comes an essay collection that tells the untold story behind today's polarized racial politics. In A Dream Deferred, Shelby Steele argues that a second betrayal of black freedom in the United States -- the first one being segregation -- emerged from the civil rights era when the country was overtaken by a powerful impulse to redeem itself from racial shame. According to Steele, 1960s liberalism had as its first and all-consuming goal the expiation of American guilt rather than the careful development of true equality between the races. In four densely argued essays, Steele takes on the familiar questions of affirmative action, multiculturalism, diversity, Afrocentrism, group preferences, victimization -- and what he deems to be the atavistic powers of race, ethnicity, and gender, the original causes of oppression. A Dream Deferred is an honest, courageous look at the perplexing dilemma of race and democracy in the United States -- and what we might do to resolve it.

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Wells, Napoleon

"A Field Negroes Handbook" is the first work from author Napoleon Wells and takes a hard look at issues of manhood, fidelity, responsibility and survival within the African American community. Written in prose, poetry and essay formats "A Field Negroes Handbook" has the feel of a journey on a winding road where hard questions are posed, difficult observations are made and answers are offered.

How does a young Black man view the world around him and his place in his community? "A Field Negroes Handbook" explores what that viewpoint may be.

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Williamson, Joel

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of the South and C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern race relations for a span of a century and a half. Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme
lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individual stories. As in Crucible of Race, Williamson here confronts the awful irony that the war to free blacks from slavery also freed racism. He examines the shift in the power base of Southern white leadership after 1850 and
recounts the terrible violence done to blacks in the name of self-protection. This condensation of one of the most important interpretations of Southern history is offered as a means by which a large audience can grasp the essentials of black-white relations--a problem that persists to this day and
one with which we all must contend--North and South, black and white.

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Powell, Gerald A.

This study explores African American identity through film, drawing from Spike Lee's cinematic production of X (1992) and Bamboozled (2000). The study brings attention to how African American identity is negotiated in communicative interactions. In doing so, the study proposes an alternative rhetorical and cultural approach to the nuances of African American identity.

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