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This work unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology, by immersing them in it, and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change.

Provides a detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. This book examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions, ideologies, and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA.

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.

Tracing the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cinema, the author writes a cogent history of African American participation in the American film industry.

Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers.

This book examines, acknowledges and records the journalism careers and contributions of four black women who have been virtually ignored in the history of black and maistream press.

Exploring the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation, this text looks at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the 19th century.

Engages cosmopolitanism, a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality. This title examines its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers.

This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's peoples and then relates these findings to the novels of Toni Morrison.

Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.

Analyzes how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States. This book puts various subgenres of prison narratives into a dialogue in order to demonstrate a polar dichotomy in the institutional and public discourses of criminality.

An Afrocentric examination of relations between African Americans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia, this book discusses issues of oppression, people as profit aswell as Epic Memory DuBois's famous "double consiousness".

Closely examines the rapidly shifting social context of education and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s. The author shows that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected.

Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sources, the author examines the surprising counter-memories of students, teachers, and community members who recall these schools not as being inferior, but as being of sufficient quality.

Examining the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, this work focuses on the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education.

Tells the story of African Americans in San Francisco, tracing the obstacles faced and triumphs achieved in areas as housing, employment and education, and adding to our understandings of civil rights and the intersection of race and geography within the postwar period of American history.

Aims to document the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution the Negro American League in 1957.

Examines a number of blaxploitation films. This work includes "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), "Blacula" (1972), and "The Mack" (1973). It also illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.

Explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic.

Examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-civil rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers between 1965-1980.

Analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. This work furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.