African American Studies

By understanding osogbo, the spirits of misfortune, we can better overcome them and return to health and balance in our lives - Explains how misfortune works in this world as living spirits that plague humanity but are also a catalyst for...

- Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other. - Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. - Shows...

To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots--honoring...

To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots--honoring...

Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era. -- Kirkus, starred review A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of...

A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex...

On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer, who lured him into the meeting under the false promise of reconciliation. Allen's death was recorded as an accidental...

One Race One Blood reveals the origins of the horrors of discrimination, the biblical truth of "interracial" marriage, as well as the proof revealed in the Bible that God created only one race. Explore the science of genetics, melanin and skin tone,...

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post * Boston Globe...

This rich collection of nearly a hundred stories from every part of Africa--legends and folktales, myths and parables, poems, prayers and proverbs--probes deeply into the heart and our relationships with God and one another.

A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black...

"Read Kuralt's words and discover America with him."UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALHe has entertained and informed us about ourselves on television for years. Taking to the highways, he has met the little-known and the famous, and shared them with the rest of...

"Ambitious and original. It belongs on the reading list of anybody who hopes to use Richard Dawkins's insight into memes. That it is entertaining is a bonus" (Daniel Dennett, New Scientist, Letters)--now in paperback. Throughout history, we humans have...

The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political...