Author: Adetokunbo Knowles Borishade
Publisher: Sankofa International Press
ISBN: 0965400956
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
History and culture are necessary components for the survival of any people, but are critically important to people of African descent. Together these components form our identity by teaching the accomplishments and successful ways of life of African ancestors from the most ancient times to the present. History in the form of family genealogy provides individuals with physical evidence for a sense of self-identity, purpose, and vision. It also bestows upon African Americans a sense of origin and location within a global context. This book presents a fresh perspective on African history for persons of African descent worldwide as well as for others. It coordinates the MtDNA laboratory results of Dr. Borishade’s maternal grandmother’s genetic haplogroup and the worldwide migration paths of her ancient grandmothers with historical, cultural, and archaeological evidence from 140,000 B.C.E. TO 1800 C.E. The combined research findings are astounding, and have greatly extended her family’s genealogy all the way back to the beginning of humanity. Fascinating Tinsley family narratives emerge within these pages which have intensely inspired and energized her family members. Many people of African descent who have taken the MtDNA laboratory test have been contented to just learn their tribe of origin and the non-African components in their DNA. However, Dr. Borishade envisioned something much larger. She viewed the scientific laboratory results as a powerful psychological,, cultural, and educational tool that has the power to enlighten, transform, and empower future generations. Through the writing of this book, it is hoped that other African Americans who have completed the MtDNA laboratory tests will be encouraged to conduct similar research that begins in 140,000 B.C.E. The resulting information scientifically shatters the negative images, stereotypes, and interpretations imposed upon people of African descent for all time.
Afrikan Family Legacy Millenniums Before Slavery
Author: Adetokunbo Knowles Borishade
Publisher: Sankofa International Press
ISBN: 0965400956
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
History and culture are necessary components for the survival of any people, but are critically important to people of African descent. Together these components form our identity by teaching the accomplishments and successful ways of life of African ancestors from the most ancient times to the present. History in the form of family genealogy provides individuals with physical evidence for a sense of self-identity, purpose, and vision. It also bestows upon African Americans a sense of origin and location within a global context. This book presents a fresh perspective on African history for persons of African descent worldwide as well as for others. It coordinates the MtDNA laboratory results of Dr. Borishade’s maternal grandmother’s genetic haplogroup and the worldwide migration paths of her ancient grandmothers with historical, cultural, and archaeological evidence from 140,000 B.C.E. TO 1800 C.E. The combined research findings are astounding, and have greatly extended her family’s genealogy all the way back to the beginning of humanity. Fascinating Tinsley family narratives emerge within these pages which have intensely inspired and energized her family members. Many people of African descent who have taken the MtDNA laboratory test have been contented to just learn their tribe of origin and the non-African components in their DNA. However, Dr. Borishade envisioned something much larger. She viewed the scientific laboratory results as a powerful psychological,, cultural, and educational tool that has the power to enlighten, transform, and empower future generations. Through the writing of this book, it is hoped that other African Americans who have completed the MtDNA laboratory tests will be encouraged to conduct similar research that begins in 140,000 B.C.E. The resulting information scientifically shatters the negative images, stereotypes, and interpretations imposed upon people of African descent for all time.
Publisher: Sankofa International Press
ISBN: 0965400956
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
History and culture are necessary components for the survival of any people, but are critically important to people of African descent. Together these components form our identity by teaching the accomplishments and successful ways of life of African ancestors from the most ancient times to the present. History in the form of family genealogy provides individuals with physical evidence for a sense of self-identity, purpose, and vision. It also bestows upon African Americans a sense of origin and location within a global context. This book presents a fresh perspective on African history for persons of African descent worldwide as well as for others. It coordinates the MtDNA laboratory results of Dr. Borishade’s maternal grandmother’s genetic haplogroup and the worldwide migration paths of her ancient grandmothers with historical, cultural, and archaeological evidence from 140,000 B.C.E. TO 1800 C.E. The combined research findings are astounding, and have greatly extended her family’s genealogy all the way back to the beginning of humanity. Fascinating Tinsley family narratives emerge within these pages which have intensely inspired and energized her family members. Many people of African descent who have taken the MtDNA laboratory test have been contented to just learn their tribe of origin and the non-African components in their DNA. However, Dr. Borishade envisioned something much larger. She viewed the scientific laboratory results as a powerful psychological,, cultural, and educational tool that has the power to enlighten, transform, and empower future generations. Through the writing of this book, it is hoped that other African Americans who have completed the MtDNA laboratory tests will be encouraged to conduct similar research that begins in 140,000 B.C.E. The resulting information scientifically shatters the negative images, stereotypes, and interpretations imposed upon people of African descent for all time.
From Slavery to Fighting for Recognition: Black Warriors for Freedom, Equality and Integration
Author: Dr Sylvester Caraway Jr.
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN: 1637284934
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book is dedicated to our Black military soldier's past, current, and future military soldiers that came from the continent of Africa and were forcibly brought to the "New World, the United States of America" as slaves who also defended the beginning of America.
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
ISBN: 1637284934
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book is dedicated to our Black military soldier's past, current, and future military soldiers that came from the continent of Africa and were forcibly brought to the "New World, the United States of America" as slaves who also defended the beginning of America.
Black Millennials
Author: Jacquelin Darby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793611823
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Black Millennials is an edited collection of writings that speak to the unique experience of the Black millennial in regard to identity, career, and social engagement in modern society and business. This book is unique in that it is written by Black millennials who are using their knowledge and expertise to speak and give voice to a generation of people who are being overlooked in both research and in the community. This book aptly starts a deeper conversation with a generation that is stuck in between what the future can be and what the past has already created.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793611823
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Black Millennials is an edited collection of writings that speak to the unique experience of the Black millennial in regard to identity, career, and social engagement in modern society and business. This book is unique in that it is written by Black millennials who are using their knowledge and expertise to speak and give voice to a generation of people who are being overlooked in both research and in the community. This book aptly starts a deeper conversation with a generation that is stuck in between what the future can be and what the past has already created.
Slavery in Africa
Author: Paul Lane
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
ISBN: 9780197264782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leading archaeologists and historians provide new studies of slavery, slave resistance and the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave trading in Africa, from the first millennium AD through to the nineteenth century.
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
ISBN: 9780197264782
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leading archaeologists and historians provide new studies of slavery, slave resistance and the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave trading in Africa, from the first millennium AD through to the nineteenth century.
Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Author: John T. Maddox IV
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786839113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
What is African American History?
Author: Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745695906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882. Organized chronologically and thematically, What is African American History? offers a concise and compelling introduction to the field of African American history as well as the black historical enterpriseÑpast, present, and future. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses many of the discipline’s important turning points, subspecialties, defining characteristics, debates, texts, and scholars. The author explores the growth and maturation of scholarship on African American history from late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until the field achieved significant recognition from the ‘mainstream’ U.S. historical profession in the 1970s. Subsequent decades witnessed the emergence and development of key theoretical approaches, controversies, and dynamic areas of concentration in black history, the vibrant field of black women’s history, the intriguing relationship between African American history and Black Studies, and the imaginable future directions of African American history in the twenty-first century. What is African American History? will be a practical introduction for all students of African American history and Black Studies.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745695906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882. Organized chronologically and thematically, What is African American History? offers a concise and compelling introduction to the field of African American history as well as the black historical enterpriseÑpast, present, and future. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses many of the discipline’s important turning points, subspecialties, defining characteristics, debates, texts, and scholars. The author explores the growth and maturation of scholarship on African American history from late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until the field achieved significant recognition from the ‘mainstream’ U.S. historical profession in the 1970s. Subsequent decades witnessed the emergence and development of key theoretical approaches, controversies, and dynamic areas of concentration in black history, the vibrant field of black women’s history, the intriguing relationship between African American history and Black Studies, and the imaginable future directions of African American history in the twenty-first century. What is African American History? will be a practical introduction for all students of African American history and Black Studies.
London Fiction at the Millennium
Author: Claire Allen
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030488861
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030488861
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyses London fiction at the millennium, reading it in relation to an exploration of a theoretical positioning beyond the postmodern. It explores how a selection of novels can be considered as “second-wave” or “post-postmodern” in light of their borrowing more from mainstream and classical genres as opposed to formally experimental avant-garde techniques. It considers how writers utilise the cultural capital of London in a process of relocating marginalized, subjugated or under-represented voices. The millennium provides an apt symbolic opportunity to reflect on British fiction and to consider the direction in which contemporary authors are moving. As such, key novels by Martin Amis, Bella Bathurst, Bernardine Evaristo, Mark Haddon, Nick Hornby, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Gautam Malkani, Timothy Mo, Will Self, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Rupert Thomson, and Sarah Waters are used to explore writing beyond the postmodern. ‘In this significant and welcome contribution to the field, Allen provides us with a sophisticated, detailed, and rigorous study of the move in contemporary fiction beyond postmodernism as exemplified by London fiction.’ —Nick Hubble, Brunel University London, UK
White Like Her
Author: Gail Lukasik
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151072415X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151072415X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era
Author: Ben Wright
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecedented destruction and promise of the period. Scholars of religion, literary critics, and especially historians have acknowledged the presence of apocalyptic thought in the era, but until now, few studies have taken the topic as their central focus or examined it from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. By doing so, the essays in Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era highlight the diverse ways in which beliefs about the end times influenced nineteenth-century American lives, including reform culture, the search for meaning amid the trials of war, and the social transformation wrought by emancipation. Millennial zeal infused the labor of reformers and explained their successes and failures as progress toward an imminent Kingdom of God. Men and women in the North and South looked to Providence to explain the causes and consequences of both victory and defeat, and Americans, black and white, experienced the shock waves of emancipation as either a long-prophesied jubilee or a vengeful punishment. Religion fostered division as well as union, the essays suggest, but while the nation tore itself apart and tentatively stitched itself back together, Americans continued looking to divine intervention to make meaning of the national apocalypse. Contributors:Edward J. BlumRyan CordellZachary W. DresserJennifer GraberMatthew HarperCharles F. IronsJoseph MooreRobert K. NelsonScott Nesbit Jason PhillipsNina Reid-MaroneyBen Wright
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecedented destruction and promise of the period. Scholars of religion, literary critics, and especially historians have acknowledged the presence of apocalyptic thought in the era, but until now, few studies have taken the topic as their central focus or examined it from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. By doing so, the essays in Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era highlight the diverse ways in which beliefs about the end times influenced nineteenth-century American lives, including reform culture, the search for meaning amid the trials of war, and the social transformation wrought by emancipation. Millennial zeal infused the labor of reformers and explained their successes and failures as progress toward an imminent Kingdom of God. Men and women in the North and South looked to Providence to explain the causes and consequences of both victory and defeat, and Americans, black and white, experienced the shock waves of emancipation as either a long-prophesied jubilee or a vengeful punishment. Religion fostered division as well as union, the essays suggest, but while the nation tore itself apart and tentatively stitched itself back together, Americans continued looking to divine intervention to make meaning of the national apocalypse. Contributors:Edward J. BlumRyan CordellZachary W. DresserJennifer GraberMatthew HarperCharles F. IronsJoseph MooreRobert K. NelsonScott Nesbit Jason PhillipsNina Reid-MaroneyBen Wright
Black Women in Politics
Author: Michael Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351313665
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism. Their challenges and initiatives are explored in public spaces, institutional behaviours, and public policy. The volume features cutting-edge research exploring black women's political engagement. The first group of contributors interrogates the treatment of black women within the discipline of political science. The second group examines the relationship between cultural politics and policymaking. The third and final group outlines the politics of race-gendered identity and black feminist practice. Black Women in Politics includes chapters on black leadership, radical versus moderate politics in New Orleans, and the Shelby vs. Holder Supreme Court decision. The editors introduce a new series highlighting trends in black politics. Finally, the work notes the passing of William (Nick) Nelson and Hanes Walton, Jr., prominent members of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351313665
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism. Their challenges and initiatives are explored in public spaces, institutional behaviours, and public policy. The volume features cutting-edge research exploring black women's political engagement. The first group of contributors interrogates the treatment of black women within the discipline of political science. The second group examines the relationship between cultural politics and policymaking. The third and final group outlines the politics of race-gendered identity and black feminist practice. Black Women in Politics includes chapters on black leadership, radical versus moderate politics in New Orleans, and the Shelby vs. Holder Supreme Court decision. The editors introduce a new series highlighting trends in black politics. Finally, the work notes the passing of William (Nick) Nelson and Hanes Walton, Jr., prominent members of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.