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The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (First paperback edition)
edited by Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014, Carole Boyce Davies, fl. 1990 and Isidore Okpewho, 1941-2016 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, originally published 1999), 594 page(s)
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramo...
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edited by Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014, Carole Boyce Davies, fl. 1990 and Isidore Okpewho, 1941-2016 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, originally published 1999), 594 page(s)
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The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson, Ira Kincade Blake, Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Sharon Aneta Bryant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Peter P. Ekeh, Patience...
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson, Ira Kincade Blake, Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Sharon Aneta Bryant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Peter P. Ekeh, Patience Elabor-Idemudia, David Evans, Robert Elliot Fox, Andrea Frohne, Joseph E. Inikori, Joyce Ann Joyce, Joseph McLaren, Charles Martin, Ali A. Mazrui, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, Nkiru Nzegwu, Isidore Okpewho, Oyekan Owomoyela, Laura J. Pires-Hester, Richard Price, Sally Price, Jean Rahier, Sandra L. Richards, Elliott P. Skinner, Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Keith Q. Warner, Maureen Warner-Lewis, and Kimberly Welch.
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Black Studies
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Book
Contributor
Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014, Carole Boyce Davies, fl. 1990, Isidore Okpewho, 1941-2016
Date Published / Released
1999, 2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Topic / Theme
African Americans, Africans
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Copyright © 1999 Indiana University Press
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Alfred H. Mendes: Short Stories, Articles and Letters
written by Alfred Mendes, 1897-1991 (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2016), 264 page(s)
Alfred H. Mendes was a prominent member of the Beacon group of intellectuals whose aim in the 1930s was the development and promotion of a Trinidad-centred literature. He was a friend and colleague of the Beacon’s editor Albert Gomes, and of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissière.Alfred. H. Mendes: Short Stories,...
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written by Alfred Mendes, 1897-1991 (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2016), 264 page(s)
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Alfred H. Mendes was a prominent member of the Beacon group of intellectuals whose aim in the 1930s was the development and promotion of a Trinidad-centred literature. He was a friend and colleague of the Beacon’s editor Albert Gomes, and of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissière.Alfred. H. Mendes: Short Stories, Articles and Letters comprises thirteen stories, and articles and letters from the 1920s to the 1960s, including two letters to Mendes...
Alfred H. Mendes was a prominent member of the Beacon group of intellectuals whose aim in the 1930s was the development and promotion of a Trinidad-centred literature. He was a friend and colleague of the Beacon’s editor Albert Gomes, and of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissière.Alfred. H. Mendes: Short Stories, Articles and Letters comprises thirteen stories, and articles and letters from the 1920s to the 1960s, including two letters to Mendes from the Trinidadian activist and pan-Africanist George Padmore. It is supported by an introduction, explanatory notes and a short glossary.Six of the stories have never been published. They include two autobiographical stories set in New York City during the Great Depression. Mendes’s first foreign publication, “Lai John”, co-authored with fellow Beacon writer Algernon Wharton, appears here for the first time since 1930. It is the first of a number of stories which Mendes wrote about Chinese immigrants. There are also stories about East Indian, Spanish and Syrian characters, English expatriates, and Mendes’s own people, the Portuguese Creoles of Trinidad.The articles and letters reflect the broad scope of Mendes’s interests and are lively, topical, carefully observed pieces, and like Mendes himself, frequently controversial.Alfred H. Mendes lived and wrote at a vitally important time in the history of the Caribbean. His stories and journalism are his lasting legacy to its peoples.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Alfred Mendes, 1897-1991
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
Topic / Theme
Literature, Writers, Trinidadians
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Copyright © 2016 Michèle Levy
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Black Deaths In Police Custody And Human Rights: The Failure Of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
written by David Mayberry, fl. 2008 (London, England: Hansib Publications, 2008, originally published 2008), 84 page(s)
This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlights the limited commitment to fulfilling McPherson’s recommendations and th...
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written by David Mayberry, fl. 2008 (London, England: Hansib Publications, 2008, originally published 2008), 84 page(s)
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This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlights the limited commitment to fulfilling McPherson’s recommendations and the value of diversity training to operational policing. Against the backdrop of Black deaths in police custody, the book questions the e...
This unique book provides an insight into one of the most disturbing and under-reported issues to affect ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.Through an assessment of diversity literature and interviews with police officers, it highlights the limited commitment to fulfilling McPherson’s recommendations and the value of diversity training to operational policing. Against the backdrop of Black deaths in police custody, the book questions the extent to which ‘institutionalised racism’ has been genuinely challenged.In October 2007, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) became operational. This development will place a growing emphasis on public bodies - such as the police - to meet their obligations as laid out in the Human Rights Act (1998). By drawing attention to a tragic and little-known problem, this book attempts to offer a genuine agenda for change.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
David Mayberry, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Hansib Publications
Person Discussed
Stephen Lawrence, 1974-1993
Topic / Theme
Race discrimination, Criminal justice, Human rights, Police brutality
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 David Mayberry
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Black Identity In The 20th Century
edited by Mark Christian, fl. 2002 (London, England: Hansib Publications, 2002, originally published 2002), 288 page(s)
This collection of essays focuses on the various forces of Black identity primarily within the context of the US and the UK in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground by examining Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic in relation to the African Diaspora. What is also unique is the fact that this volume...
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edited by Mark Christian, fl. 2002 (London, England: Hansib Publications, 2002, originally published 2002), 288 page(s)
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This collection of essays focuses on the various forces of Black identity primarily within the context of the US and the UK in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground by examining Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic in relation to the African Diaspora. What is also unique is the fact that this volume provides a firm collaboration between Black British and African American scholars.Too often, Black experiences have been viewed in isol...
This collection of essays focuses on the various forces of Black identity primarily within the context of the US and the UK in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground by examining Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic in relation to the African Diaspora. What is also unique is the fact that this volume provides a firm collaboration between Black British and African American scholars.Too often, Black experiences have been viewed in isolation from one another. Black Identity in the 20th Century enables the reader to compare and contrast themes relating to these two important locations.Covering a range of interdisciplinary topics, the book is divided into three interlocking sections.Part One examines Pan-African philosophy and practice, West Africans in Britain (1900-1960), and African American political struggle covering the Civil Rights Movement and Black Nationalism;Part Two considers the impact of Afrocentricity in challenging Western intellectual hegemony, the Black intellectual tradition and the role of Afrocentric social work in the UK;Part Three analyses the complexity and nuances of Black identity in terms of phenotype or physical markers and folklore via prose.It is written in a stimulating and accessible style, and includes contributions from relatively new voices in the field of Black Studies as well as distinguished scholars.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Mark Christian, fl. 2002
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Hansib Publications
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, Racial identity, African Americans, Caribbean and West Indians
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Copyright © individual authors
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Caribbean Reasonings, After Man, Towards the Human
edited by Anthony Bogues, fl. 2009, in Caribbean Reasonings (Kingston, Kingston Parish: Ian Randle Publishers, 2006), 361 page(s)
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions on ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism, Wynter h...
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edited by Anthony Bogues, fl. 2009, in Caribbean Reasonings (Kingston, Kingston Parish: Ian Randle Publishers, 2006), 361 page(s)
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Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions on ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism, Wynter has emerged as one of the region’s premier cultural and social theorists. This interdisciplinary collection offers a variety of inter...
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions on ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism, Wynter has emerged as one of the region’s premier cultural and social theorists. This interdisciplinary collection offers a variety of interpretations of Sylvia Wynter’s work and seeks to cover the range of her thought. Her rich source of investigation of some of the compelling questions that currently face humanity makes her not just a major Caribbean figure, but a world-class intellectual. In its explorations of culture, literary theory and philosophy, this volume significantly expands the field of Caribbean intellectual history and will be useful for courses in Cultural Studies; Caribbean Studies; African-American Studies; Intellectual History and Critical Theory.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Anthony Bogues, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Ian Randle Publishers
Series
Caribbean Reasonings
Person Discussed
Sylvia Wynter, 1928-
Topic / Theme
Philosophy, Social sciences, Cultural views
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Copyright © 2006 Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona
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Gold Coast Revolution: The Struggle of an African People from Slavery to Freedom
written by George Padmore, 1903-1959 (London, England: Dennis Dobson (Publisher), 1953), 272 page(s)
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written by George Padmore, 1903-1959 (London, England: Dennis Dobson (Publisher), 1953), 272 page(s)
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
George Padmore, 1903-1959
Date Published / Released
1953
Publisher
Dennis Dobson (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Political causes, Nationalism, Ghanaians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1953 Dennis Dobson
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How Russia Transformed Her Colonial Empire: A Challenge to the Imperialist Powers
written by George Padmore, 1903-1959 (London, England: Dennis Dobson (Publisher), 1946), 178 page(s)
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written by George Padmore, 1903-1959 (London, England: Dennis Dobson (Publisher), 1946), 178 page(s)
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
George Padmore, 1903-1959
Date Published / Released
1946
Publisher
Dennis Dobson (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Russians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1946 Dennis Dobson Limited
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Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity
written by Maria A. Robinson-Smith, fl. 2018 (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2018), 195 page(s)
Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over J...
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written by Maria A. Robinson-Smith, fl. 2018 (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies Press, 2018), 195 page(s)
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Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over Jamaica, engaging in the same practices, is a symbolic homeland where people celebrate their Africanness and sustain the collective memo...
Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over Jamaica, engaging in the same practices, is a symbolic homeland where people celebrate their Africanness and sustain the collective memory of Revivalists. Revival iconography is explored through its many modes: visual, sound and movement. Seals, symbols and colour symbolism are presented as a representation of the repertoire of images that make up the Revival iconography. Revival cosmology in the rituals and ceremonies are explored and the spaces created by the seals are treated as liminal ones for the enactment of cultural performances. Smith makes the point that the iconography makes it possible for Revivalists to interpret events and rituals in much the same way across Jamaica. Iconography is the symbolic language and carrier of culture that is central to the practice and production of shared meanings, and this language gives Revivalists a sense of identity. The Revival iconography stores information that makes it possible for Revivalists to reconnect with African metaphysics, thus reclaiming the African self.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Maria A. Robinson-Smith, fl. 2018
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, Revivalism, Africans, Jamaicans
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Copyright © 2018 Maria A. Robinson-Smith
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Routledge Studies in Modern British History, 5, Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora
written by Marika Sherwood, 1937-, in Routledge Studies in Modern British History, 5 (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2011, originally published 2011), 373 page(s)
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Associat...
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written by Marika Sherwood, 1937-, in Routledge Studies in Modern British History, 5 (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2011, originally published 2011), 373 page(s)
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Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended wen...
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended went on to work in various pan-African organizations in their homelands.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Marika Sherwood, 1937-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Person Discussed
Henry Sylvester Williams, 1869-1911
Topic / Theme
Social movements, Political causes, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright © 2011 Taylor & Francis
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The State Of Black Britain, Vol. 2, State Of Black Britain Vol. 2
written by Aaron Haynes, fl. 1983, in The State Of Black Britain, Vol. 2 (Antigua and Barbuda: Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), 1997, originally published 1997), 128 page(s)
This second volume examines the absence of policies directed at the needs of Britain's Black communities in the 1990s, and argues that the Thatcher revolution, with its emphasis on individualism and its rejection of community, did not only affect white society, but had a traumatic affect on the development of Brit...
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written by Aaron Haynes, fl. 1983, in The State Of Black Britain, Vol. 2 (Antigua and Barbuda: Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), 1997, originally published 1997), 128 page(s)
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This second volume examines the absence of policies directed at the needs of Britain's Black communities in the 1990s, and argues that the Thatcher revolution, with its emphasis on individualism and its rejection of community, did not only affect white society, but had a traumatic affect on the development of Britain’s multi-coloured society. The book concludes with a Black Agenda for the year 2000.
Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Aaron Haynes, fl. 1983
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Hansib Publishing (Caribbean)
Series
The State Of Black Britain
Topic / Theme
Race and culture, Race relations
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1997 Dr. Aaron Haynes
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