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Liberal philosophy came to Africa through colonialism: it was taught in schools, preached and supported by the churches, and maintained and encouraged by an economic system characterized by competition and maximizing profitcapitalism.

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Casts African American autobiographies as a form of the epic, in which learning creates a passage to freedom.

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This collection of critical essays is the first work to examine the short stories of Ann Petry, a noted African American writer.

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From the end of the slave era to the culmination of the Civil Rights movement, advertising portrayed Blacks as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens, and Rastuses, and the author explores the psychological impact of these portrayals.

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The book also suggests a theoretical framework for future research on the impact of Black leadership in America.

A wide range of issues are considered in this volume, beginning with the definition of leadership and the concept of Black leadership.

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This is the first book to document thoroughly the lifestyle and collective experience of the many thousands of black sailors during this time period. In a penetrating study, the author unveils the enormous contribution made prior to the Civil War to the nation's economy, prestige, and power by black Americans.

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This volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America. It examines individual neo-slave narratives and evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature, and on perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.

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Highlights the elements of Alice Walker's imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

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Through narrative and rhetorical strategies that subvert genre and challenge the discourse of race and gender, black South African woman writer Bessie Head creates alternative healing spaces that empower and enoble the marginalized, provide potential for transcendence and self-creation, and render ineffective the power of language to subjugate.

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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Focusing on the scholarly "literature of fact", this study explores the telling - and frequent mis-telling - of the story of black women during a century of American historiography, from the late 19th century to the present day, looking at the black woman's "prefabricated past".

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This collection of essays looks at the history of the black struggle for equality in the USA since the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s, and at the policies and political and economic realities that have brought progress to a near standstill.

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This study of early black actresses traces the evolution and progress of such stage pioneers, focusing especially on Anita Bush, Laura Bowman and Abbie Mitchell, who achieved success on their own in the first 30 years of the century and helped train a new generation of black actresses.

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A study of education in South Africa. It begins with a look at the socioeconomic and political structure (dating back to 1658) that allowed for the use of education as a tool of hegemony and follows this with a critical analysis of the educational system - its goals, objectives and structure.

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This book combines historical biography with a focus on the role of the practitioner in the folk health-care system, and ethnobotany, including a description of the active ingredients of the herbs used in African American herbal medicine.

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From a Caste to a Minority explores the complex and changing attitudes held toward blacks by the nation's leading sociologists from 1896 to the end of World War II.

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McGuire's study fills a major gap in social histories of the Second World War by placing Hastie's role in proper historical perspective.