Lerone Bennett Jr.’s The Shaping of Black America is an assiduous work detailing the history of African people in the United States. Beginning with a well-documented account of our first steps in... Read more »
The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization by Asa G. Hilliard
Our concern with the connection to our African past is really future oriented. It is not merely for sentimental or aesthetic reasons that we return. While it is true that no one... Read more »
Published in 1987, Dr. Robert Staples’s The Urban Plantation, correctly analyzes the position of Africans in the settler colony of the United States as that of an internal/domestic colony. While this theoretical... Read more »
The Deacons’ strength was that they were the only southern wide organization created and controlled by the black working class during the civil rights movement. It is no coincidence that it was... Read more »
The notion that the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominate theme of Civil Rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens... Read more »
Thomas Gladwin’s, Slaves of the White Myth: The Psychology of Neocolonialism, is an indispensable tool for decolonization. Instead of using a particular region as the basis of his analysis for studying western... Read more »
When We Ruled is a landmark publication superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps, and drawings. It provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and the... Read more »
Most stories and books written about the Haitian Revolution mainly focus on the men that fought in that war and almost never mention the valuable contributions of women during that period. Women... Read more »
This book has the important element that is missing in most of books and articles on Garvey—a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about. –Dr. John Henrik Clarke Revolutionary Pan-Africanist... Read more »
Basil Davidson’s Modern Africa: A Social and Political History. First published in 1983, is a social and political review of Africa’s history from the early years of the twentieth century through to... Read more »