Make us homepage
Add to Favorites
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Main page » Tag AFRICAN

Sort by: date | rating | most visited | comments | alphabetically


Encyclopedia of African American History 3 volumes
8
 
 

Encyclopedia of African American History 3 volumesEncyclopedia of African American History 3 volumes

Encyclopedia of African American History introduces readers to the significant people, events, sociopolitical movements, and ideas that have shaped African American life from earliest contact between African peoples and Europeans through the late 20th century.
The encyclopedia places the African American experience in the context of the entire African diaspora, with entries organized in sections on African/European contact and enslavement, culture, resistance and identity during enslavement, political activism from the Revolutionary War to Southern emancipation, political activism from Reconstruction to the modern Civil Rights movement, black nationalism and urbanization, and 
 
  More..
Tags: African, American, political, activism, contact, History, Encyclopedia, volumes
The Concise Companion to African American
0
 
 

The Concise Oxford Companion to African AmericanThe Concise Oxford Companion to African American

This important sourcebook for information about black writers and their craft is a welcome companion to the recently issued Norton Anthology of African American Literature. More to the point, it shows how much black literature, once relegated to the margins, has become mainstream. Here are brief biographies of more than 400 black writers, entries on some 150 works, and a host of entries on characters from novels, stories, and plays.

 

http://englishtips.org/1150823044-the-concise-oxford-companion-to-african-american.html



Dear user! Your publication has been rejected as it seems to be a duplicate of another publication that already exists on Englishtips. Please make sure you always check BEFORE submitting your publication. If you only have an alternative link for an existing publication, please add it using the special field for alternative links in that publication.
Thank you!


 
  More..
Tags: black, entries, American, literature, African, Companion, Concise
West African Kingdoms: Empires Of Gold and Trade (Ancient Civilizations)
4
 
 

West African Kingdoms: Empires Of Gold and Trade (Ancient Civilizations)West African Kingdoms: Empires Of Gold and Trade (Ancient Civilizations)

The books in this series give in-depth coverage to four of the Ancient World's most important civilizations. The books show how these civilizations began, how they developed and became large and important ones, and how they eventually died out. Trade, arts, education, and political and religious topics are all covered.
 
  More..
Tags: Trade, civilizations, books, Ancient, important, African
To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
2
 
 

To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This narrative synthesizes the fifty-year story of the struggle to make the federal government more responsive to the plight of African American workers and the efforts to make the nation's workplaces significantly more fair and just towards this long-oppressed population. Useful to scholars but accessible to all, To Advance Their Opportunities is an engaging portrait of the role of government in seeking to realize the goal of a color-blind society of equals.

 
  More..
Tags: African, Opportunities, Their, Advance, government, American
African History: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
5
 
 

African History: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook, mp3)African History: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook, mp3)

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyond. The author illustrates important aspects of Africa's history with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over five millennia across this vast continent. 
 
  More..
Tags: Africa, Introduction, Short, drawn, examples, African, Audiobook