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The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
A Critical Edition
O'Kelly, James J., Brittan, JenniferIn late 1872, the New York Herald named James J. O’Kelly its special correspondent to Cuba, to cover what would later be known as the Ten Years’ War. O’Kelly was tasked...
The Abandoned Baobab
The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
Bugul, KenThe subject of intense admiration--and not a little shock, when it was first published--The Abandoned Baobab has consistently captivated readers ever since. The book has...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Condé, MaryseThis wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and...
The Quebec Connection
A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures
Tolliver, Julie-FrançoiseFrom the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection, Julie-Françoise Tolliver...
Rituals of Race
American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Lorini, AlessandraIn this sophisticated study of the struggle for African American human rights in America, Alessandra Lorini examines public events in New York City from the end of the Civil...
After Apartheid
Reinventing South Africa?
Shapiro, Ian, Tebeau, KahreenDemocracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That...
The Color of Their Skin
Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89
Pratt, Robert A.[Book description not available]
The Segregated Scholars
Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950
Wilson, Francille RusanIn Segregated Scholars Francille Rusan Wilson explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the prisms of gender, class,...
How Societies Are Born
Governance in West Central Africa before 1600
Vansina, JanLike stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging...
The Sacred Act of Reading
Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature
Castro, Anne MargaretFrom Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The...
Charlottesville 2017
The Legacy of Race and Inequity
Harold, Claudrena N., Nelson, Louis P.When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a...
Trans-Atlantic Sojourners
The Story of an Americo-Liberian Family
Young, M. NeelyUnique in its formation and in a citizenry made up largely of repatriated ex-slaves, Liberia has been the scene of a fascinating intercontinental history. Trans-Atlantic...
New World Modernisms
T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Pollard, Charles W.James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a "traveling culture" because it reflects the "discrepant cosmopolitanism" of the twentieth century – that is, a world in...
Pathologies of Paradise
Caribbean Detours
Nair, Supriya M. Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of the region to Edenic...
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers
History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana
MacGaffey, WyattIn his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that...
Cannibal Modernities
Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature
Madureira, LuísUnique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, Cannibal Modernities is the first postcolonial...
Climb to the Sky
Dracius, Suzanne Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author’s native...
Signs of Dissent
Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism
Fulton, DawnMaryse Condé is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and...
Cultural Haunting
Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature
Brogan, KathleenGhost stories in various forms have been a part of popular literature for centuries, from Shakespeare to Dickens to Faulkner. Over the past twenty-five years, a resurgence of...
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk
The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
Rodríguez Navas, AnaChaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals-is...
The Bastards
Juminer, BertneThis is a novel of education: social, political, radical, and medical. The protagonist is collective, a group of medical students from French Guiana at the University of...
Nedjma
Yacine, KatebNedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is...
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr
Alexander, Ann FieldAlthough he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few...
Starving on a Full Stomach
Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa
Wylie, DianaAn ideology of African ignorance that justified white supremacy grew up in South Africa during the first half of the twentieth century: if Africans were hungry, it was because...
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Dance, Daryl CumberThere is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book,...
