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| Author | : Geoff Wisner |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Pub |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781588268624 |
"African Lives, a pioneering anthology of memoirs and autobiographical writings, lets the people of Africa speak for themselves -- telling stories of struggle and achievement that have the authenticity of lived experience. The anthology presents selections from the work of many of Africa's finest writers and most significant personalities from across the continent and spanning several centuries. Enhancing the material, Geoff Wisner's introduction and biographical notes provide important context for the selections and also highlight the challenges that African memoirs pose to the preconceptions of Western readers. The result is a book that is both an absorbing read and a valuable resource for courses on Africa." -- Publisher's description.
| Author | : Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1055 |
| Release | : 2004-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019988286X |
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.
| Author | : Joyce Hansen |
| Publisher | : Jump At The Sun |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-07-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780786851164 |
What was it like to live as a queen in ancient Egypt, or as an Amazon warrior in western Africa? African Princess tells the stories of six remarkable royal women and the eras in which they lived, from 1473 B.C. to the present. Some lived in great luxury; others lived in exile as freedom fighters. The rise of the slave trade and the arrival of European colonists unsettled the entire continent and forced rulers to find ways to govern and protect their kingdoms. Consequently, many of these royal women ruled in extremely difficult times, marked by palace intrigue, foreign invasion, and harrowing adventure.
| Author | : John Henrik Clarke |
| Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780933121775 |
African history as world history: Africa and the Roman Empire -- Africa and the rise of Islam -- The mighty kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay -- The Atlantic slave trade: Slavery and resistance in South America and the Caribbean -- Slavery and resistance in the United States -- African Americans in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Olivette Otele |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-05-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1541619935 |
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures—like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village—and the untold stories—like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.
| Author | : Gabrielle Tayac |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Books |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2009-10-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Examines the intersection of Native-American and African-American history, discussing how the two groups have influenced one another, what conflicts they have faced, and how they came together despite slavery, dispossession, racism, and other obstacles.
| Author | : Kevin Dawson |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2021-05-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0812224930 |
Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
| Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 960 |
| Release | : 2022-05-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1982145099 |
"A ... synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
| Author | : W. J. Megginson |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2022-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643363395 |
A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.
| Author | : Irma Eloff |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2019-08-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030153673 |
This handbook reflects on quality-of-life in societies on the continent of Africa. It provides a widely interdisciplinary text with insights on quality-of-life from a variety of scientific perspectives. The handbook is structured into sections covering themes of social context, culture and community; the environment and technology; health; education; and family. It is aimed at scholars who are working towards sustainable development at the intersections of multiple scientific fields and it provides measures of both objective and subjective quality-of-life. The scholarly contributions in the text are based on original research and it spans fields of research such as cultures of positivity, wellbeing, literacy and multilinguism, digital and mobile technologies, economic growth, food and nutrition, health promotion, community development, teacher education and family life. Some chapters take a broad approach and report on research findings involving thousands, and in one case millions, of participants. Other chapters zoom in and illustrate the importance of specificity in quality-of-life studies. Collectively, the handbook illuminates the particularity of quality-of-life in Africa, the unique contextual challenges and the resourcefulness with which challenges are being mediated. This handbook provides empirically grounded conceptualizations about life in Africa that also encapsulate the dynamic, ingenious ways in which we, as Africans, enhance our quality-of-life.
