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Black authors are reaching out in their writings to the African American readers to share with them knowledge about themselves and the trials that African people have had to suffer for their rightful dignity and heritage.
America Is Me. by Kennell Jackson
Black Fatherhood: A Guide to Black Male Parenting by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, PhD
"Betty Shabazz A Sisterfriends' Tribute in Words and Pictures" edited by Jamie Foster Brown
"In 1997, when Betty Shabazz tragically died as a result of a fire set by her grandson Malcolm--named after her late husband, Malcolm X--most of the world had seen her as a grieving widow who was faced with the task of raising six daughters without a father. But as this beautiful mini- coffee-table book shows, Shabazz overcame enormous odds by becoming an excellent educator, mother, and role model.
Compiled with love by music industry-entertainment reporter Jamie Foster Brown, founder and publisher of the magazine Sister 2 Sister, this collection offers simple, heartfelt, and often witty words of reverence from a wide array of famous and not-so-famous African American women. Suetta MCree, a hometown friend of Shabazz's from Detroit, recalls, "Betty was a good girl ... she did what she was supposed to do." Tributes are offered by entertainers Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, and Mary J. Blige, actress Ruby Dee, civil rights leaders Coretta Scott King and Myrlie Evers-Williams, California Representative Maxine Waters, and author Gloria Naylor. Poet Maya Angelou sums up the general tone of this beautiful offering when she writes of Shabazz, "She was my sister and I was hers, we were strong women together." Jamie Foster Brown
"Flight" by Walter White
Today's obsession with American racial categories makes this formerly long-out-of-print Harlem Renaissance-era novel by Walter White, a former president of the NAACP, as relevant as when it was published in 1926. "Flight" deals with the peculiar phenomenon known as "passing," whereby fair-skinned African Americans, in an effort to escape racism, masqueraded--"passed"--as Caucasian. White, who with his blond hair and blue eyes could have easily passed himself, writes about the perils of Mime Daquin, a New Orleans-bred mulatto who is forced to leave her sheltered Creole community in the Crescent City and move to Atlanta, where she encounters the color line. Shamed by an out-of- wedlock pregnancy, she flees to Philadelphia and finally ends up in Harlem where she crosses the line for good. White weaves a tale that deals with racism, caste, and the eternal pull of racial and cultural bloodlines not easily severed.
"A Stranger in the Village Two Centuries of African- American Travel Writing" edited by Farah J. Griffin and Cheryl J. Fish
Representing a people that first "traveled" to the New World via slavery, this splendid collection of 47 entries reveals a complex and nonmonolithic African American world-view ranging from U.S. frontier exploration to Pan-Africanism. Alongside James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Claude McKay writing about Paris, Mexico, Africa, and Russia, author Ntozake Shange muses on the unifying presence of the African American Motown sound in Nicaragua, and 19th- century leader Booker T. Washington offers astute analysis of northern Italian prejudice against its southern citizens. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s description of his 1959 pilgrimage to India, he writes, "We were looked upon as brothers with the color of our skins as something of an asset...," whereas in journalist Carl T. Rowan's 1956 visit, forecasting today's India-Pakistan nuclear conflict, the mood is not so optimistic "Here was an inverse racism as much a threat to peace ... as the kind of racism I suffered." Although the inclusion of the various journals by Africans who survived the Middle Passage would have been welcome, this book is a long-overdue addition to the genre of travel writing, showing once and for all that African Americans are, and have always been, a global people.
"The Real Ebonics Debate" edited by Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit
The term "Ebonics" exploded onto the mainstream media in 1996 due to a controversial resolution by the Oakland school board recognizing Vernacular Black English in their efforts to teach their inner-city youth. This book offers some well-needed definitions and defenses of Ebonics as a legitimate language and grammar system of West African origin that should be understood by teachers. As Lisa Delpit writes, "The teacher's job is to provide access to the national 'standard' as well as to understand the language the children speak sufficiently to celebrate its beauty." "The Real Ebonics Debate" details the history of Ebonics (a name combining the words "ebony" and "phonics") since 1973, including the Eurocentric bias in determining what language is and the American racism and coded media phrases that mark the debate. The book will be crucial to the understanding of this controversial issue for years to come. Along with famous essays and poetry by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, the most important documents in this collection are copies of the actual Oakland Ebonics Resolution and the Ebonics Resolution Revision, which stated, "The superintendent ... shall immediately devise and implement the best possible academic program for the combining purposes of facilitating the acquisition and mastery of English language while respecting and embracing the legitimacy and the richness of the language patterns."
"The Last of the Black Emperors" by Jonetta Rose Barras
"Journalist Jonetta Rose Barras takes a hard-boiled look at the rise and fall of Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, who was reelected after serving time for smoking crack. Barras, in her top-notch reporting, lays bare the racially charged Washington political landscape in which Barry operates, writing, "Some blacks are leery of Barry. Having found their way inside corporate boardrooms and suburban neighborhoods, they temper their praise for him, labeling his race-based politics divisive.... Still, their cultural connections demand that they respect and marvel at Barry...." Barras chronicles Barry's beginnings, from his '60s student work in Nashville, Tennessee (which is also discussed in broader scope in David Halberstam's "The Children"), to his ascendance from the D.C. school board to the mayor's office. But Barras also calls into account the effectiveness of Barry's '60s-style political activism and the near-despotic characteristics of his generation's hold on power. "Twenty years from now," she writes, "if today's new black leaders provide for their own timely exits from the political stage--something their predecessors failed to do--they will help realize the dream of civil rights era activists." Barras's book is a sometimes scathing account of Barry's peril and promise that also serves as a cautionary tale for future black leaders."
--Eugene Holley Jr. is a freelance writer living in New York City.
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This is a bibliographic listing of books to be found in the Detroit metro libraries
based on Africa and its history. Some titles are currently available in many bookstores
throughout the metro area either by order or by purchase by the vendor. Others,
regretfully are out of print, so they may not be available for purchase. The
history about the slave revolt mutiny aboard the ship Amistad takes center stage.
Alice
Walker : Critical Perspectives : Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) ~
AUTHOR(S): Asante, Molefi K.,
TITLE: The Afrocentric idea / Molefi Kete Asante. PUBLISHED: Philadelphia : Temple
University Press, c1987.
AUTHOR(S): Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
TITLE: Classical Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante.
PUBLISHED: Maywood, N.J. : Peoples Publishing Group, 1994.
AUTHOR(S): Diop, Cheikh Anta
TITLE: Cheikh Anta Diop, an African scientist : an axiomatic
overview of his teachings and thoughts / edited
and compiled by E. Curtis Alexander.
PUBLISHED: New York,NY : ECA Associates, 1984
UNIFORM TITLE: Civilisation ou barbarie. English
TITLE: Civilization or barbarism : an authentic anthropology
/ Cheikh Anta Diop ; translated from the French by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi ; edited by
Harold J. Salemson and Marjolijn de Jager.
AUTHOR(S): Ekwe-Ekwe, Herbert, 1953-
TITLE: Operationalising Afrocentrism / Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe &
Femi Nzegwu.
PUBLISHED: Reading, England : International Institute for
Black Research, c1994.
AUTHOR(S): Gailey, Harry A.
TITLE: History of Africa
PUBLISHED: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston <1970-72>
AUTHOR(S): Jackson, John G.
TITLE: Ethiopia and the origin of civilization : a critical
review of the evidence of archaeology, anthropology,
history and comparative religion, according to the
most reliable sources and authorities / by
John G. Jackson.
PUBLISHED: New York, N. Y. : Blyden Society, 1939.
AUTHOR(S): Jackson, John G.
TITLE: Introduction to African civilizations/by John G. Jackson;
introduction and additional bibliographical notes by
John Henrik Clarke.
EDITION: Paper.
PUBLISHED: New York : Carol Publishing Group, c1994.
TITLE: Kemet and other ancient African civilizations : selected
references / compiled by Vivian Verdell Gordon.
EDITION: 1st ed.
PUBLISHED: Chicago, Ill. : Third World Press, c1991.
AUTHOR(S): Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938-
TITLE: Homecoming: essays on African and Caribbean literature,
culture and politics
(James Ngugi).
PUBLISHED: London, Heinemann, 1972.
AUTHOR(S): Shillington, Kevin.
TITLE: History of Africa / Kevin Shillington.
EDITION: Rev. ed.
PUBLISHED: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995
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