Ready from Within: Septima Clark & the Civil Rights Movement, A First Person Narrative

Biographies & Memoirs

Septima Poinsette Clark

Community & Culture

Africa World Press, Inc.

The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons

The author analyzes the importance of Queen Nanny from cultural, military, historical, and religious point of view. This book marks an attempt to integrate a key figure of New World history into her rightful place as the leader of a critical resistance movement in Jamaica in the first part of the 18th century.

Karla, Gottlieb

This anthology, Unraveling Gender, Race and Diaspora, brings together academicians and public intellectuals in a vigorous conversation that reimagines and expands the fields of Africana, postcolonial, feminist, gender and women s studies. In its theorizing of the intersections of difference gender, race, class, culture and location within Africa and between Africa and its Diasporas, the volume offers a more global representation of the cross cultural experiences of diasporic subjects. The volume offers critical re-assessments of dominant discourses of the diaspora and formations of the subject identities within it. By emphasizing the relevance of intra-diasporic conversations in film, literature and oral tradition, the volume comprehensively engages core concerns in black diasporic communities memory (remembering and forgetting), space/location, time, human agency, and shifting exigencies. Blending dynamic, interdisciplinary, transnational and African diasporic frameworks, this eclectic and timely volume adds richly to the discourse of cultural production and formations. Its engaging depth and breadth illuminate the complexities of race, gender, identities, histories and cultural politics, opening resourceful windows to students, scholars and the general readership. --Jude G. Akudinobi, University of California, Santa Barbara. A riveting collection of essays on the shifting constructions of women s lives and the negotiation of contested and contesting identities in Africa and its Diasporas. --Naomi Nkealah, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Unravelling Gender, Race and Diaspora

Obioma Nnaemeka and Jennifer Thorington Springer

This book offers thoughtful insights into the protracted peace process that led to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 (CPA): its arbiters, its major players, and its ultimate failure to produce a united Sudan. It is a rare glimpse into the road to the partition of Sudan by one of the most formidable Sudanese scholars and a seasoned diplomat, who above all happened to be an insider to the same peace process. There is perhaps no better Sudanese than Mansour Khalid to present an objective assessment relating to the negotiating and implementation of the Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in January 2005. The rigorous, passionate but objective analysis by Mansour Khalid contained in this book tells a story which, in a real sense, can and should serve as an important manual to help guide all of us as we continue to engage the struggle for the renewal of our dear Continent. This is a book that we must not only read, but which we must study. -Thabo Mbeki, Former President, Republic of South Africa Mansour Khalid grounds intellectual production and practical experience in the complicated Sudanese historical context, producing a text that attains the status of an archive by itself. The detailed narration of peace and conflict reveals actors at work, making peace and war, and simultaneously offering promises and anguish. The book brilliantly nestles concrete historical narratives within an engaging ethnography, providing innovative approaches to understand the complexity of peace making, the frailties of institutions, the passion of committed peace activists, and the devastations that a conflicted elite can manufacture and sustain. A formidable achievement, it will forever remain a landmark book in the understanding of modern Africa, a reading experience that can never be acquired within the four walls of any college classroom. -Toyin Falola, The Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, and President, African Studies Association.

THE PARADOX OF TWO SUDANS: The CPA and the Road to Partition

Mansour Khalid

On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness is a collective intervention into the discursive formation of black studies at the outset of the twenty-first century, the essays in this volume forward a specific confrontation with the existing epistemological violence of the academy and its institutionalization of the study of black people and of racial, sexual, and gender difference more broadly. Ours is a time of unprecedented black dispossession and criminalization globally, a moment in which contemporary multicultural, post-colonial, and post-racial discourse asserts a perverse inversion of racial hierarchy is corrupting the social and democratic cohesion, further muting and transmogrifying the historical struggles for black self-determination into the cellblocks and prison yards of an uninhabitable social incarceration. We view this situation as proceeding from a signal desire to quarantine the ethical demands of blackness. The present volume is a response to this state of affairs across the African Diaspora, an ethico-political engagement with the antiblack world with, namely, the specific context of black bodily subjection that underwrites the production of knowledge about humanity and the social. It offers a new roadmap for negotiating the relationship between dominant conceptual frameworks and black suffering and liberation practice. In doing so, it sidesteps what too often is a recapitulation of ideas and orientations within Black Studies that effect the myopic closures that have dominated black thought during the past couple decades, and as a consequence, hindered our view of the world, the violent underside and all-sides, the beast and its belly. On Marronage is both timely and timeless for the set of questions that black struggle has posed, insatiably, across the generations of black radical praxis since the dawn of African enslavement. As the Westernized and post-colonial global scene continually seeks to contain black liberation, this volume represents and references intellectual and ethical marronage from the world-shaping contours of antiblackness. In this vein, On Marronage presents itself in the tradition of freedom seekers everywhere and every place. "This groundbreaking collection from leading Black Studies scholars does the dangerous political work of articulating how violent anti-blackness is foundational in the study of blackness itself. By centering critiques of gender and sexual politics, cultural production, activist intellectualism and creative arts, these essays are deeply instructive on how studies of black suffering must necessarily forge theories and praxes of black liberation." Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil "What happens when Black Studies comes to terms with the Black body as always already the site of nullification, where to be is not to be, where whiteness doesn't simply mark Blackness as difference, but pushes Blackness outside the domain of the relational? And what happens when Black Studies itself is the study of its own absence? These questions require a form of political realism that is unafraid to address the fundamental antagonism at the heart of global whiteness --anti-blackness. P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods have provided us with a text that raises the question of ethics within the structural and ontological context of an anti-Black social world that fails or refuses to recognize how its existence is predicated upon a fundamental negation of Blackness." George Yancy, author of Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

ON MARRONAGE: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness

Edited by P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods

This book is a long awaited work on discovering and re-discovering the long standing relations, at times warm and supportive, and at other times, conflicted and troubled linkages between Jews and African Americans in the context of American history. However, these two prominent writers go beyond the long and troubled history of Jews and African Americans in the United States, by exploring the historical origins of these two peoples by stretching their narrative to Africa and Israel and the politics therein. Brackman and Isaac are nothing but honest about their strong feelings and closely examine the historical data of these relationship in searching for an understanding of the tortured paths that it may have taken. It is a book that will be part of the controversy, but also, an essential part of the on-going conversation on the links and at times, challenging but on-going conversation. "Harold Brackman and Ephraim Isaac, two seasoned scholars, have written a magisterial account of the relationship between Jews, Africans, and African Americans, the three most persecuted groups in human history." -David Brion Davis (From the Forward) "I am convinced that, in the twenty-first century, we have reached a turning point where the Black-Jewish civil rights coalition needs to be rebuilt in a global context where relations between Israel and Africa have taken their place beside relations between Jews and African Americans in the United States. …I view myself fortunate to have in some sense shared the intersecting experiences of African, African American, and Jew. A Jew, born in Africa, I know not only what African Americans have endured in the United States, but what my fellow Ethiopian Jews have experienced in Israel. In the ancient and medieval worlds, there were encounters of Jews and Africans long before the first persecuted European Jews and enslaved Africans arrived in the New World. This book traces the many and multifaceted encounters of Jews, Africans, African Americans over centuries and continents. We hope it will contribute to a rebirth of empathy and mutual understanding." -Ephraim Isaac (From the Preface) "…It demonstrates how important the relationships between Jews, Africans, and African Americans have been over centuries and across continents. It also shows what a singular achievement the Black-Jewish civil rights alliance in the United States has been, and how it can even inspire efforts toward inclusiveness in contemporary Israel -Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center &amp; Museum of Tolerance (From the Afterward)

From Abraham to Obama: A History of Jews, Africans and African Americans

History

Harold Brackman and Ephraim Isaac

Americas

Kema Chikwe Across Borders: Selected Speeches and Essays, include forty-five of Kema Chikwe's speeches and essays centering around the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon's 3rd Millennium Development Goal, to "Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women" in the New Millennium. The book is also about attaining the civic and political rights of women and girls, around the world, Nigeria in particular.It set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by the UN General Assembly in 1948 and 1979, respectively. In demanding dynamic and engaging government policies and the implementation of the policies in Nigeria, Kema Chikwe aims to transform lives--Back cover.

Kema Chikwe Across Borders: Selected Speeches and Essays,

Kema; Umeh Chikwe

This volume considers the interface in which slavery, memory, citizenship have been intertwined. The full rights and responsibilities associated with citizenship confront the legacy of slavery, the persistence of racism and the ways people want to remember past wrongs that affect the lives of people in the present. Indeed achieving full citizenship also has to overcome what people don't want to remember about the past because of the inconvenience of knowing the truth and the difficulty of adjusting attitudes and social relationships. It is easier to carry forward stereotypes and perpetuate misunderstandings than to promote levels of social justice that can only be achieved through reconciliation and reparation. The thoughtful and inspiring discussions at the Summer Institute held at York University in August 2011 have now been carefully edited as a series of critical essays at the crossroads of memory, citizenship, and slavery. Privileging elastic and capacious interpretations over unilinearity, all the essays weave ethical dilemmas and moral stakes with long-range histories, thus creating a new intellectual mandate to expand the frontiers of knowledge. There are superior arguments spread all over the pages, suggesting that fresh ideas are alive, a right turn is taken, a moral present can speak to an ethical past, and critical articulation can address diverse audiences that are indispensable to our discipline. -Toyin Falola, President, African Studies Association The Harriet Tubman Institute has explored the movement of African Peoples globally, as reflected in this volume. The issues of Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship are particularly relevant today as the United Nations has declared 2015-2024 as the Decade to focus on peoples of African Descent. These well researched original papers engaging the experience and memory of slavery in Colonial Chile, the Antebellum United States, Canada, France, Haiti, and Mexico provide background for the current discussions on reconciliation and reparation. These essays and their illustrations is a must read for all who care about the legacy of slavery and racism in formulating social and public policy. -Jean Augustine PC CM CBE, Fairness Commissioner of Ontario

Slavery, Memory, Citizenship

Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira

Recent legal and institutional reforms in Morocco, particularly the amended constitution of 2011, which guarantees gender equality and women s political participation, along with the reform of the Family Code in 2004, have significantly impacted democracy and the modernization process in Moroccan society. Unlike Libya and Egypt, Morocco did not experience a revolution. Yet, it did not escape the tumult of the so-called Arab spring. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in a dozen of cities led by the February 20 Movement, which demanded the end of corruption and the right to social justice and gender equity. Women were strongly represented in these protests for democracy; they came from different ethnic and political backgrounds and marched alongside the men, demanding social and political change. The post Arab Spring government has committed to implement the new constitution through women s increased political participation. As a result, more women joined parliament through the quota system for women and youth. The 2011 constitution reserved ten per cent of seats for women and ten percent for youth, in the hope of encouraging their political participation and their representation in parliament and government. Despite the positive changes in Morocco and the growing emancipation of women in all domains, there are still hurdles that hinder their emancipation and participation in public life, such as illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, lack of education and professional training, insufficient resources, difficult access to loans, and weak representation in decision and policy-making. Women s organizations today play a major role in sensitizing women, families, and social actors as to the importance of integrating women in economic, social, and cultural development. Further steps in favor of protecting women s rights are badly needed to ensure their strong contribution to sustainable development.

Moroccan Feminisms: New Perspectives

Moha Ennaji

Fatima Sadiqi and Karen Vintges

A Luta Continua: (Re)Introducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers contains essays that investigate, critique, extend, reaffirm, and elaborate on the work, practice, and history of Cabral in order to help channel outrage and reaction into a response rooted in strategy and unity. It explores his philosophical legacy as a source of living history in today's world - a historical context qualitatively different from that in which they were created. A Luta Continua is a prject of transmission and the cultivation of general black intellectuality aimed at helping create new modes of social organization that resist anti-Black and anti-African violence, and ultimately bring about black liberation. For the current generation wrestling with the long legacy of racial capitalism, white supremacy, state violence and dispossession, A Luta Continua is right on time. These probing, sophisticated, generative essays bring Amilcar Cabral's philosophy of praxis into clear focus. Their critical reflections on Cabralian conceptions of culture, colonialism, postcolonialism, history, consciousness, the human, the people, the nation, repositions the African Liberation Movement as a chief progenitor of Black radical thought. The authors demonstrate Cabral's mantra that theory and praxis are the most powerful weapons we have. -Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times As Olufemi Taiwo astutely put it in his foreword, this wonderful collection of essays offers Cabral the thinker. It is a valuable contribution to intellectual work that bring to the fore the ideas of Africana intellectuals, for which this reader, along with what I'm sure to be many, will praise the efforts of this collective and its editor, P. Khalil Saucier. Work well done on thought regarding what proverbially needs to be done. -Lewis R. Gordon, author of What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

A Luta Continua: (Re)Introducing Amilcar Cabral to a New Generation of Thinkers

P. Khalil Saucier

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