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Author: Alana L. Jolley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2008-01-14
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1669860752
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Author: James Hoke Sweet
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0807834491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means fo
Author: Anne Bower
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0252076303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking
Author: Jennifer Latham
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0316384941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
Author: James H. Sweet
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004-07-21
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0807862347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that survived their transplantation to the African-Portuguese diaspora, arguing that they did not give way to immediate creolization in the New World but remained distinctly African for some time. Slaves transferred many cultural practices from their homelands to Brazil, including kinship structures, divination rituals, judicial ordeals, ritual burials, dietary restrictions, and secret societies. Sweet demonstrates that the structures of many of these practices remained constant during this early period, although the meanings of the rituals were often transformed as slaves coped with their new environment and status. Religious rituals in particular became potent forms of protest against the institution of slavery and its hardships. In addition, Sweet examines how certain African beliefs and customs challenged and ultimately influenced Brazilian Catholicism. Sweet's analysis sheds new light on African culture in Brazil's slave society while also enriching our understanding of the complex process of creolization and cultural survival.
Author: Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1986-08-05
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1101666641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Loretta B. Randle M.A.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2023-01-25
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1638440409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrandmothers are God's super weapon! At age sixty-seven, Loretta B. Randle, M.A., received her master of arts in global urban leadership with an emphasis in servant leadership from Bakke Graduate University. Loretta is a licensed minister of New Visions Christian Fellowship Church. She established the outreach ministry of When 1000 Grandmother's Pray Prayer Advocacy. After returning from a missions trip from India, Loretta organized the Children's Prayer Initiative. She has over forty years of passionate community transformation activistism and child advocacy service. Today, at age of seventy-three, Loretta B. Randle serves as an innovator of Christian community development initiatives. She shares wisdom in various volunteer leadership roles in community based and faith-based local, national and global contexts. Loretta is in continuous state of submission to the transforming work of the Spirit of God to renew and inspire her servants calling. Loretta offers personal discipleship coaching, professional character strength coaching, and provides contemplative prayer and wellness practices for the busy and helping professional through Lead Well Initiative.
Author: Devon A. Mihesuah
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-11
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 149622387X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award,Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life. Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens features pointed discussions about the causes of the generally poor state of indigenous health today. Diminished health, Mihesuah contends, is a pervasive consequence of colonialism, but by advocating for political, social, economic, and environmental changes, traditional food systems and activities can be reclaimed and made relevant for a healthier lifestyle today. New recipes feature pawpaw sorbet, dandelion salad, lima bean hummus, cranberry pie with cornmeal crust, grape dumplings, green chile and turkey posole, and blue corn pancakes, among other dishes. Savory, natural, and steeped in the Native traditions of this land, these recipes are sure to delight and satisfy. This new edition is revised, updated, and contains new information, new chapters, and an extensive curriculum guide that includes objectives, resources, study questions, assignments, and activities for teachers, librarians, food sovereignty activists, and anyone wanting to know more about indigenous foodways.
Author: E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0807872261
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Author: Ira Dworkin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1469632721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.
