Black Africa
Author | : Cheikh Anta Diop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cheikh Anta Diop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert H. Jackson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520313070 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author | : Cheikh Anta Diop |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613747454 |
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author | : Jacques Jérôme Pierre Maquet |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Investigates the major stages in Africa's cultural development from the neolithic age, and explores the role of industry in the continent's future development.
Author | : Ladislas Segy |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780486231815 |
Pictures grotesques, masks, and headdresses of various African tribes as well as exploring the psychological and ideological meaning, and ritual function of masks
Author | : Tudor Parfitt |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2013-02-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674071506 |
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas tells the fascinating story of how the Ashanti, Tutsi, Igbo, Zulu, Beta Israel, Maasai, and many other African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel. Pursuing medieval and modern European race narratives over a millennium in which not only were Jews cast as black but black Africans were cast as Jews, Tudor Parfitt reveals a complex history of the interaction between religious and racial labels and their political uses. For centuries, colonialists, travelers, and missionaries, in an attempt to explain and understand the strange people they encountered on the colonial frontier, labeled an astonishing array of African tribes, languages, and cultures as Hebrew, Jewish, or Israelite. Africans themselves came to adopt these identities as their own, invoking their shared histories of oppression, imagined blood-lines, and common traditional practices as proof of a racial relationship to Jews. Beginning in the post-slavery era, contacts between black Jews in America and their counterparts in Africa created powerful and ever-growing networks of black Jews who struggled against racism and colonialism. A community whose claims are denied by many, black Jews have developed a strong sense of who they are as a unique people. In Parfitt’s telling, forces of prejudice and the desire for new racial, redemptive identities converge, illuminating Jewish and black history alike in novel and unexplored ways.
Author | : Laure Meyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This magnificently illustrated book covers each medium or craft in turn and examines in a clear and accessible manner the entire range of Black African art from aesthetic and ethnological points of view.
Author | : Judith A. Carney |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674029216 |
Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves who worked them had created one of the most profitable economies in the world. Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence, the vital significance of rice in West African society for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began. The standard belief that Europeans introduced rice to West Africa and then brought the knowledge of its cultivation to the Americas is a fundamental fallacy, one which succeeds in effacing the origins of the crop and the role of Africans and African-American slaves in transferring the seed, the cultivation skills, and the cultural practices necessary for establishing it in the New World. In this vivid interpretation of rice and slaves in the Atlantic world, Judith Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas.
Author | : Khalid Mustafa Medani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2022-09-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009257714 |
Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is central to grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa. In this book, Khalid Mustafa Medani explains why youth are attracted to militant organizations, examining the specific role economic globalization plays in determining how and why militant activists emerge. Based on extensive fieldwork, Medani offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of globalization, neoliberal reforms and informal economic networks on the rise and evolution of moderate and militant Islamist movements. In an original contribution to the study of Islamist and ethnic politics, he shows the importance of understanding when and under what conditions religious rather than other forms of identity become politically salient. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Binyavanga Wainaina |
Publisher | : One World |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2023-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812989678 |
From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.