March 24, 2008

ISSUE XIII

The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set (Hardcover) by Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Editor) (This is a work that has painstakingy researched and documented the lives of thousands of individuals, illuminating the abiding influence of persons of African descent on the life of this nation from the arrival of Esteban in Spanish Florida in 1529 through to notable black citizens of the present day. This include a wide range of African Americans from all time periods and all walks of life, both famous and nearly-forgotten..)

African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation (Race and Culture in the American West Series) (Hardcover) by Gary Zellar (Author) Gary Zellar holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The author of several articles and numerous presentations on the African Creeks.

Visit our new African American Studies curriculum site

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

Visit our new NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTION site

Visit our new Black Historians site

The Medal of Honor, this nation's highest honor for valor, was awarded to four Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts. Buffalo Soldier Regimental returns, show that after twelve engagements and twenty expeditions, not one of their men was killed or seriously wounded in their seventeen-year history from 1868-1885. These young men of pure African or mixed black and Seminole ancestry, dressed, acted and possessed trailing, hunting and fighting skills like those of the plains Indians. Their number varied between thirty to fifty scouts. They were probably the best desert fighters and trackers the in the history of the United States Army. ...(Read More)

The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, and the International Community (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective) (Paperback) by Alex Dupuy (Author)

The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) (Hardcover) by Louis Chude-Sokei (Author), Louis Chude-Sokei (Author).

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Paperback)

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) (Paperback) by Tiya Miles (Author)

Beyond Structural Adjustment: The Institutional Context of African Development (Hardcover) by Nicolas Van de Walle (Author), Nicole Ball (Author), Vijaya Ramachandran (Author)

Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume I (Penguin Academics) (Paperback) by Clayborne Carson (Author), Gary B. Nash (Author), Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner (Author)

African Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) (Paperback) by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Editor)

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover) by Jane E. Soothill (Author)

Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment (Hardcover) by Peter Hallward (Author)

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