Africana legacy : diasporic studies in the Americas / edited by Cecily Barker McDaniel and Tekla Ali Johnson.

An introduces to sociological, political, legal, scientific, artistic, and historical aspects of the Africana (African and African American) sojourn in the Americas.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. African American Experience Committee
Other Authors: McDaniel, Cecily Barker
Johnson, Tekla Ali
Language:English
Published: Littleton, Mass. : Tapestry Press, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Black people > Africa.
African Americans > History.
Slavery > North America.
Slavery > South America.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Africans > United States.
African Americans > Relations with Africans.
Physical Description:xxii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Diasporic studies in the Americas.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Tekla Ali Johnson and Cecily Barker McDaniel
  • Maps of Africa. The modern states of Africa
  • Africa, 1914
  • The main corridors of the African slave trade
  • The trans-Atlantic slave trade
  • African American population in the United States
  • Africa during the 13th to 17th centuries
  • Introduction. The intellectual and institutional development of Africana studies / Robert L. Harris
  • Unit I. Being: The emergence of mankind in Africa / David W. Phillipson
  • Profile : Nzinga Mbemba (Affonso I) of Kongo / Darlene Clark Hine, et al
  • Caribbean black families : a social-historic perspective / Phillip Carey and Kesha Tisdel
  • I am a revolutionary black woman / Angela Y. Davis
  • Reflections on race and sex / Bell Hooks
  • Unit II. Going: The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African / Olaudah Equiano
  • The slave auction / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • After slavery / Nell Irvin Painter
  • A seat on the Canadian train / Ronald Segal
  • Another exodus : the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona / Ethan Michaeli
  • Unit III. Critiquing and organizing: from The conservation of races / W.E.B. DuBois
  • The emergence of a black nationalist sentiment / Cecily Barker McDaniel
  • Looking back at Brown / Adolph Reed, Jr.
  • Race matters / Cornel West
  • Sick and tired of being sick and tired : the politics of black women's health / Angela Y. Davis
  • Unit IV. Adapting and change: The progress of colored women / Mary Church Terrell
  • The assassination of Jim Crow / Marshall F. Stevenson, Jr.
  • The black movement and women's liberation / Linda La Rue
  • For my people / Margaret Walker
  • Unit V. Building: African American families and slavery / Deborah Gray White
  • from Black bourgeoisie : the rise of a new middle class in the United States / E. Franklin Frazier
  • Growing up in the new Negro renaissance : 1920-1935 / Arthur P. Davis
  • The Atlanta exposition address, 1895 / Booker T. Washington
  • An address delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston, February 27,1833 / Maria Stewart
  • Colored women as wage-earners / Anna Julia Cooper
  • Unit VI. Creating: Africanisms in African American music / Portia K. Maultsbury
  • "I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago" : Richard Wright and the Chicago renaissance of African American literature / Deborah Barnes
  • Africa, slavery, and the shaping of black culture / Mary Frances Berry and John W. Blassingame
  • African-American literature : a survey / Trudier Harris
  • Black American cinema: the new realism / Manthia Diawara
  • Unit VII. Doing: Justifiable homicide, Police brutality, or governmental repression? The 1962 Los Angeles police shooting of seven members of the nation of Islam / Frederick Knight
  • Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association / Marcus Garvey
  • Cool pose / Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson
  • The million man march, 1995 / Louis Farrakhan
  • Bullet holes in the wall: reflections on the Dudley, A & T student revolt of May 1969 / Claude W. Barnes
  • Black American cinema: the new realism / Manthia Diawara
  • Unit VIII. Re-connecting: The socioreligious heritage / Mararet Washington Creel
  • Du Bois and the Pan-African congress movement / Immanuel Geiss
  • Back to Africa, 1958-1962 / Colin Legum
  • Three centuries removed : black Americans and their African connections / Edwin Dorn and Walter Carrington
  • Africa must unite / Kwame Nkrumah
  • Historical overviews of the black arts movement / Kaluma ya Salaam
  • Unit IX. Believing: Hoodoo / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Conjure, magic, and power : the influence of Afro-Atlantic religious practices on slave resistance and rebellion / Walter Rucker
  • The founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Richard Allen
  • Black religion / Maulana Karenga
  • from The history of the Mary Prince, a West Indian slave / recounted by herself
  • He's comin' through / Jason Berry
  • Unit X. Politics of identity: I, too / Langston Hughes
  • What can or will we do without race? / Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
  • Abolition and the politics of identity in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora : toward a comparative approach / Kim. D. Butler
  • from Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann, trans.
  • Black women shaping feminist history / Bell Hooks
  • Black psychology / Maulana Karenga
  • The evolution of feminist consciousness among African American women / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
  • Cool pose / Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson
  • No more secrets, no more lies : African American history and compulsory heterosexuality / Mattie Udora Richardson
  • Unit XI. New worldorder: Thoughts about restitution / Randall Robinson
  • Unnatural disasters / Michael Eric Dyson
  • The miseducation of hip-hop / Jamilah Evelyn
  • Voices from the margins / Tricia Rose
  • Hip-Hop moguls : beyond the hype / Traiq K. Muhammad
  • The mother / Gwendoyn Brooks
  • Kandels of Kwanzaa / Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen We Langa
  • Women in prison : how we are / Assata Shakur
  • The African American warrant for reparations : the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante.