In this newly expanded edition, more than 4,000 articles cover prominent African and African American individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, businesses, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, countries, and more.
109–31. For a discussion of the American Victorian panegyric, see Edward H. O'Neill, A History of American Biography 1800– 1935 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935), pp. 18–115. 5. Nicolson, English Biography, p. 111.
First published in 1993, this is a new edition of the classic text in which Clenora Hudson-Weems sets out a paradigm for women of African descent.
The Africana Human Condition and Global Dimensions
Introduction to Africana Studies
The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.
This volume reviews the past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate policies for the future.
In this text, the authors bring together 31 scholars to provide a reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline of 'Africana' studies.
The contributors to this book hope to influence this early phase in Black/Africana Studies historiography and provide a resource for discourse on the future of the discipline.
Africana is a beautiful illustrated and fact-filled encyclopedia which takes young readers on a journey around the brilliantly diverse continent.
Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora