Selected New Materials: November 2008
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Books:
Ain’t I a Feminist? African American Men speak Out on Fatherhood, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Freedom. Aaronette M. White. Africana Library: E185.86 .W438689, 2008
Here are the life stories of 20 African American men who identify themselves as feminists. The book looks at the turning points that shaped and strengthened their commitment to feminism, as well as the ways they practice feminism with women, children and other men. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Daily Life of The Ancient Egyptians, Second Edition. Bob Brier and Hoyt Hobbs. Africana Library: DT61 .B685 2008
Explore the daily lives of ancient Egyptians in this exciting update of one of the most successful Daily Life titles. Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can explore social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations. Narrative chapters explore the preparation of food and drink, religious ceremonies and cosmology, work and play, the arts, military domination, and intellectual accomplishments. With information garnered from recent excavations and research, including new content on construction, pyramid building, ship building, and metallurgy, this up-to-date volume caters to the ever-evolving needs of today's readers. A timeline, an extensive "research center" bibliography, and over 20 new photos make this a must-have reference source for modern students of ancient history. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Du Bois’s Dialectics: Black Radical Politics and the Reconstruction of Critical Social Theory. Reiland Rabaka. Africana Library: E185.97 .D73 R323, 2008
With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and the problematic of black radical politics in contemporary culture and society, Du Bois's Dialectics employs Du Bois as its critical theoretical point of departure and demonstrates his (and Africana Studies') contributions to, as well as contemporary critical theory's connections to, critical pedagogy, sociology of religion, and reparations theory. Rabaka offers the first critical theoretical treatment of the W.E.B. Du Bois-Booker T. Washington debate, which lucidly highlights Du Bois's transition from a bourgeois black liberal to a black radical and revolutionary democratic socialist. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940. Nigel Pavitt. Africana Library: DT433.524 P38 2008
Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation. This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ever to have been published. The early photographers captured the beauty and dangerous allure of life on this spectacular frontier: the ceremonies and traditional attire of the native people, the fantastic machinery used in construction of the Uganda Railway, the gradual development of trade on the coast and in the country's interior, the hardships of the East African Campaign during World War I, and the pioneering spirit of early European settlers and farmers. Many of the most famous names and places connected with Africa appear in these pages, including Karen Blixen's farm and Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt on safari. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Lesson From the Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements. Kathy Emery et’al. Africana Library: E185.93 .M6 E44 2008
People Make Movements asks the questions that get at the heart of what education should be about. Howard Zinn, from the introduction, Can we bring teachers and students together, not through the artificial sieve of certification and examination, but on the basis of their common commitment to an exciting social goal? Can we solve the old educational problem of how to teach children crucial values, while avoiding a blanket imposition of the teacher's ideas? Part history text, part curriculum, part invitation to activism, when our students consider who we' are, People Make Movements will provide important insights. Every social studies or language arts teacher can benefit from this new resource. Bill Bigelow, editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and author of The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration, People Make Movements provides the historical context to the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964. It tells the story of how the four major civil rights organizations ended up joining together in Mississippi to break the back of segregation in the South. (amazon.com)
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing From the Antilles. Thomas Glave. Africana Library: PN849 .C32 O87 2008
The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers along with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as Reinaldo Arenas, Audre Lorde, Achy Obejas, Assotto Saint, José Alcántara Almánzar, Michelle Cliff, and Dionne Brand. The result is an unprecedented literary conversation on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experiences throughout the Caribbean and its far-flung Diaspora. Many selections were originally published in Spanish, Dutch, or Creole languages; some are translated into English here for the first time. The thirty-seven authors hail from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Suriname, and Trinidad. Many have lived outside the Caribbean, and their writing depicts histories of voluntary migration as well as exile from repressive governments, communities, and families. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds of Injustice. John B. Hatch. Africana Library: E 185.615 .H34 2008
In this enlightening and insightful book, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the United States, and in doing so, proposes a rhetorical theory of reconciliation. Recognizing the impact of religious traditions and modern social values on the dialogue of reconciliation, Hatch examines these influences in tandem with contemporary critical race theory. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Racism In the 21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color. Ronald E. Hall. Africana Library: HT1507 R33, 2008
In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the United States that it once was. The contributors show that racism has not fallen from the forefront of American society, but is manifest in a different way. According to the authors in this volume, in 21st century, skin color has come to replace race as an important cause of discrimination. This is evidenced in the increasing usage of the term a people of color to encompass people of a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. The editor has compiled a diverse group of contributors to examine racism from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributions range from the science of racism, from its perceived biological basis at the end of the 19th century, to sociological studies its new forms in the 21st century. The result is a work that will be invaluable to understanding the challenges of confronting Racism in the 21st Century. (Bowker’s Books in Print)
Chocolate City. s.l.: Wildlife Productions, 2007. 1 videodisc (46 min.).
Africana Library: Videodisc 393
In 2003 over 400 families from the Arthur Capper’s housing project in South East Washington DC was force from their homes as part of a massive nation-wide redevelopment program. This film tells the impressive story of one community fighting for its survival alongside the wider narrative of the city itself.
Dream Girls. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007, 2006. 2 videodiscs (130 min.). Africana Library: Videodisc 321, pt. 1-2
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie’s brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams. Participants: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncâe Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson.
