Category: Books

  • “In Generations of Freedom” Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779-95), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery’s legal demise…

  • The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children

  • In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama’s was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical shifts in policy.

  • Historicizing Race Bloomsbury Academic (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) 2018-02-22 200 pages 9 x 6 inches Hardback ISBN: 9781441184245 Paperback ISBN: 9781441143679 Ebook (Epub & Mobi) ISBN: 9781441158246 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781441180162 Marius Turda, Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom Maria Sophia Quine, Senior Research Fellows…

  • A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.

  • Riverbend Plantation, isolated and decaying, had seen many strange events, passionate conflict and tragic romance.

  • World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history―from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.

  • “To Lift Up My Race,” a collection of writings by Cassius, gives us the man–evangelist, educator, farmer, entrepreneur, postmaster, politician, and father of twenty-three–in a significant moment in the emergence of black culture and society between Reconstruction and the Great Depression.

  • What happens when the baby they buried comes back?

  • A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death – from one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35