For geopolitical reasons, Western imperialism in Europe and the Americas has purposefully mislead people to believe that African people were only enslaved in the United States. This was primarily to undermine Pan-Africanism... Read more »
C-101 instructs you to ignore the Amazon blurb for this book. If you know anything about Kwame Ture, it would be clear that he would never accept the description of being a... Read more »
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a African community’s struggle in North Carolina to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.... Read more »
Caroline Elkins, a historian at Harvard University, has done a masterful job setting the record straight in her epic investigation, Imperial Reckoning. After years of research in London and Kenya, including interviews... Read more »
From “emancipation” to “segregation” to “integration”, Africans in America exist today by virtue of a continuum of political evolutions, each of which is built upon prior legacies and achievements. In advancing our... Read more »
Criminal trial lawyer Williams pays attention to gritty details while relating the events of her life: growing up black and female in pre-World War II America; coursing through a white-male-dominated legal academy;... Read more »
This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »
Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African leaders in history. They are the thoughts of a determined African... Read more »
The Haitian Revolution is one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world, if not, the most significant revolution in the Western hemisphere. However, since this was a revolution... Read more »
Mau Mau and Kenya traces a unique peasant revolt against British colonialism. Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya... Read more »