Cultural Literature
AFRICAN ORIGINS OF MODERN JUDAISM: FROM HEBREWS TO JEWS (COMING SOON)
This book has a two-fold purpose; to demonstrate to Black and White Hebrews and Jews their undeniable kinship and to encourage a better relationship among Israelites through understanding of that kinship. In this seminal work, Dr. Malcioln attempts to answer...
$35.00
NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS & CONTEXTS
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Text and Contexts
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr; y First printing edition (December 1, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 390 pages
ISBN-10 : 086543445X
ISBN-13 : 978-0865434455
Item Weight : 1.32 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$33.00
AFRICAN CULTURE: THE RHYTHMS OF UNITY
Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is "one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment." They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie...
$21.95
COMMON GROUND: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard W. Thurman and Huey P. Newton
This study examines the idea of consciousness as a phenomenal reality in the writings of Howard W. Thurman and Huey P. Newton. The purpose was to determine if there was confluence in the relationship between their usage of consciousness as...
$24.95
CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE
"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia." Product details Publisher : Red Sea Press,U.S.; UK ed. edition (April 26, 2016) Language : English Paperback : 280 pages...
$34.95
CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICAN LITERATURE
"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia." Product details Publisher : Red Sea Press,U.S.; UK ed. edition (April 26, 2016) Language : English Paperback : 280 pages...
$34.95
Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia
In Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could "rid someone of a...
$18.95
Kintu
The breathtaking debut from the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 'A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.' (Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author...
$19.99
A Girl Is A Body of Water (Available June 15,2021)
"Makumbi’s prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm―poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations." ―The New York Times Book Review "A mesmerizing feminist epic." ―O, the Oprah Magazine...
$17.95
Chains (PB)
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City...
$8.99
Black Futures (ONE WORLD)
Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The...
$40.00
CITY KID: A WRITER'S MEMOIR OF GHETTO LIFE AND POST-SOUL SUCCESS
Traces the author's rise from a youth spent in Brooklyn's Brownsville housing project to a Grammy Award winner and two-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, in an account that describes his early family life, the pop culture that inspired...
$25.95
MAKE IT PLAIN: STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power...
$16.99
MICHELLE OBAMA: FIRST LADY OF HOPE
There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of the most influential First Ladies...
$14.95
BLACK BOY
Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary...
$18.99
MAYA ANGELOU: A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author,...
$30.00
GIL SCOTT-HERON: PIECES OF A MAN (COMING SOON)
Excellent Book. Product details ASIN : B00JTIRUSE Publisher : St. Martin's Press (November 11, 2014) Publication date : November 11, 2014 Language : English File size : 919 KB Text-to-Speech : Enabled Screen Reader : Supported Enhanced typesetting : Enabled X-Ray : Not Enabled Word Wise : Enabled Print length...
$83.44
MADIBA A TO Z: THE MANY FACES OF NELSON MANDELA
From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and...
$35.00
HIGH PRICE: A NEUROSCIENTIST'S JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY THAT CHALLENGES EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT DRUGS AND SOCIETY
High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real...
$16.99
GAME OVER: MY LOVE FOR HIP HOP
Winter Ramos, one of the new faces of VH1's hit reality television show, Love& Hip Hop- New York Season 3 delivers a brazen and unabashed memoir of her life in the world of hip hop. In Game Over Winter puts...
$24.98