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April 28, 2008

Issue II

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Hardcover) by Linda M. Heywood (Author), John K. Thornton (AuthorLinda M. Heywood is Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University. John K. Thornton is Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University.

Show Us How You Do It: Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 (Religion & American Culture) (Hardcover) by Edward J. Robinson (Author)Edward J. Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bible, Missions, and Ministry, Abilene Christian University,

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl) (Hardcover) by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Author) Erica Armstrong Dunbar is associate professor of history, University of Delaware. She lives in Wyncote, PA


Visit our African American Studies curriculum site

Visit our African Studies site (all 54 Nations on the Continent of Africa.)

Visit our NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTION site

Visit our Black Historians site


Ways of Recording African History

Societies throughout sub-Saharan Africa have preserved knowledge about the past through verbal, visual, and written art forms. Often, the responsibility of recording historical information was consigned to professional historians, trusted individuals whose superior wisdom and training equipped them to remember and interpret vast stores of information for the benefit of the community. In centralized states and chiefdoms, historians were often religious or political advisors who regulated royal power, supporting or checking it as necessary. ....(Read More)


Publications of interest for your Consideration:

Some new,some old, all Relevant !!

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (Hardcover) by Sylviane A. Diouf (Author)

Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings (Hardcover) by Angela L. Cotten (Editor), Christa Davis Acampora (Editor)

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Hardcover) by Karen Sotiropoulos (Author

Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Music of the African Diaspora) (Paperback) by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. (Author)

Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, And New Beginnings in a New South (Paperback) by Mark Kemp (Author)

The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (Hardcover) by Shane White (Author), Graham White (Author)


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