New Books, Documentaries and Movies

Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure―the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, Eur...

This volume explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. In contrast to pr...

The development of Afrocentric historical writing is explored in this study which traces this recording of history from the Hellenistic-Roman perio...

J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father die...

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders....

Throughout the twentieth century, millions of African Americans, many from impoverished, historically black counties, left the South to pursue what...

This book explores the spiritual dimensions (political, racial, sexual, and violent) of Malcolm X's journey from Christianity to Islam, Julius Lest...

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. ...

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the Africa...

''American Black History'' is a concise yet thorough treatment of 500 years of African American history from its origins in the civilizations of Af...

At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North ...

The Great Migration was the most significant event in black life since emancipation and Reconstruction. Passionately Human, No Less Divine analyzes...

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former sla...

Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen considers how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. Writ...

A collection of first-person accounts documenting a historical legacy of violence against black women in the U.S.In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci Wes...

This empowering book looks beyond the notion that institutional racism is responsible for low attainment at school. Instead it explores the complex...

It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexiste...

This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. ...

An account of a Black anthropologist's year of fieldwork in a Southern community offers in-depth analyses which reveal a South untouched by the civ...

Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpos...

This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative ...

In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex...