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The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain
What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements by tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth ......
The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native American and African American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' ......
In this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the ''invisible'' legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail.''Ever since Invisible Poets we ......
This pathbreaking collection of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen early African-American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of the times. Invaluable to historians of anthropology, this collection will also be useful to readers ......
How African-American mayors of major cities from Los Angeles to New York and Detroit to New Orleans met the post-election challenges of decaying inner cities, white flight, entrenched local power structures, and multiple demands from their diverse constituencies.On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the ......
Restores primary African-American dance pioneers to their proper place in the history of American Dance innovationAfrican-American Concert Dance significantly advances the study of pioneering black dancers by providing valuable biographical and historical information on a group of artists who worked during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to legitimize ......
This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women ......
Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861
The struggle for black identity in antebellum New YorkDuring the early national and antebellum eras, black leaders in New York City confronted the tenuous nature of Northern emancipation. Despite the hope of freedom, black New Yorkers faced a series of sociopolitical issues including the persistence of Southern slavery, the threat of forced ......
