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VODOUN
The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism: The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti
Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the Afric…
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POLITICS
Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940
Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into t…
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POLITICS
Black Intellectuals Come to Power: The Rise of Creole Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago
Aim of the book is to retell the development of the Trinidad society and culture as it pertained to the emergence and problems of the nationalist m…
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PAN AFRICAN
A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story
Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to r…
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CARIBBEAN
A Rebel's Guide to Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney was almost the same age as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr when he was assassinated on 13 June 1980 in Guyana at the age of 38. T…
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SELF DEFENSE
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art in the Atlantic World
The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. …
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RACISM
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence's Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers and Linked Ethnic Leftists
The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FB…
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WOMEN
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean rad…
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CARIBBEAN
Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean
Almost thirty years after Malcolm X's assassination, his autobiography continues to sell more than 150,000 copies a year, and a spate of books,…
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PAN AFRICAN
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
Pauulu’s Diaspora is a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and wo…
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JAMAICA
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Custo…
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WHITE SUPREMACY
Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systemati…
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YORUBA
Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved an…
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POLITICS
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940…
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WOMEN
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration…
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SLAVERY
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804
To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, …
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POLITICS
Caribbeanization of Black Politics, The: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment. In The Caribbeanization of Black Po…
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VODOUN
Urban Voodoo: A Beginner's Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic
This book fills a long-standing need in the literature: Voodoo, Santeria, and Macumba as practiced today in cities throughout the Western world. It…
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WOMEN
We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History
This book was put together to reclaim, and to create heightened awareness about, individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African-A…
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ETHIOPIA
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America
Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan—the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have …
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Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
At the Heart of it All Discourses on the Reproductive Rights of African American Women in the 20th Century
African Women In Revolution
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
African Diasporic Women's Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship
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