Negro Intellect . . . A Guide for Young Black Males is a humorously candid and straight to the point guide directed at America’s urban youth. With chapters ranging from “How to Road Trip” to “How to g
This is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. First published in 1934 and mostly neglected in Cunard's own time, Negro has attained the status of a cult classic. The list of contr
Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the c
Bruns, a historian, acquaints high school students, students of American social history and culture, and general readers with Negro League baseball and the achievements and experiences of African Amer
Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems
Africa is at once the most romantic and the most tragic of continents. So beginsThe Negro, the first comprehensive history of African and African-derived people, from their early cultures through the
History of the American Negro: West Virginia Edition is a collection of biographies of African American men and women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Edited and published by A. B. Caldwe
"Until the late 1940s, African-American athletes were not allowed to play Major League Baseball. Instead, they played the game they loved in the Negro Leagues."
More than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer. "Myriam Moscona's extraordinary book," writes Francine Masiello, "is a treatise on the senses." NEGRO MARFIL
The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of t
In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered together essays on the subject “What the Negro Wants” written by fifteen prominent African American intellectuals, includin
The Black Family Reunion Celebrations, organized by The National Council of Negro Women and held in seven cities across America every summer, celebrate and preserve the values, traditions, and streng
"First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln faced the problem of the status of black people in American democracy, and it remains unsurpassed. S
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887- 1940) led an extraordinary mass movement of black social protest. His Universal Negro Improvement Association and his "back to African" program of racial national
Bringing together for the first time selected articles by the distinguished anthropologist, this volume presents a comprehensive survey of Herskovits' exhaustive study of the Negro in the Western Hemi
Poetry. African & African American Studies. In NEGRO SIDE OF THE MOON, Earl Braggs fires: "...If you will, please understand that Black on Black crime, as you may, now, very well know, is un-compl
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach
"The Mis-Education of the Negro" originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, is arguably his greatest book. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African Americans of his time were b
Presents a history of the Negro Leagues, from their inception to the integration of black players into Major League Baseball to the eventual demise of the league.
