To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800–1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom t
Based on a previously unexamined body of qadi court records as well as two hundred oral interviews in Wolof and Mandinka, Contours of Change: Muslim Courts, Women, and Islamic Society in Colonial Bath
Throughout Africa one craft among many stands out: that of the blacksmith. In many African cultures, smiths occupy a significant position, not just as artisans engaging in a difficult craft but also a
Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa is an account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. It covers th
In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal
A study of neighborhood community change in the northeastern section of Washington, DC. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the destabilization of this previously stable, working- an
Provides a background for Tees' 1968 founding of the theater by reviewing the previous state of black theater and her own training and experiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Then chronicles her move back
This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation stru
*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).**Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for America
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts
*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).**Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Bas
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages
Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity
Traces the full history of African Americans in the region from their arrival to the eve of emancipation, especially providing a rare and valuable look at their experience and struggle through the suc
