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4) Sankofa
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not indicated]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Research has shown that the No Child Left Behind 2001 has left many children behind, especially minority children. Today, African American students are facing achievement gaps, have high dropout rates, and are not meeting the minimum required standards set forth by each state. African American students are in need of an education overhaul. If the African American community is to thrive, we must seek all possible outlets to ensure that our children...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest, over ten and a half million, were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes the entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Poor or marginal whites occupy an uncharted space in recent identity studies, particularly because they do not easily fit the model of whiteness-as-power proposed by many multiculturalist or minority discourses. Associated in mainstream culture with "trashy" kitsch or dangerous pathologies rather than with the material realities of economic life, poor whites are treated as degraded caricatures rather than as real people living in conditions of poverty...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Through an analysis of the literature on racial identity development within the context of American society, the following paper utilizes the Cross Model of Psychological Nigrescence (1991, 2001) and focus group data to understand how culturally affirmative campus experiences, or "positive encounters, " can support the identity development process for Black students at a predominantly White institution in the southwest. By examining positive and negative...
20) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 34
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"Historian, sociologist, novelist, editor, and political activist, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the most gifted and influential black intellectual of his time. This Library of America volume presents his essential writings, covering the full span of a restless life dedicated to the struggle for racial justice."--The publisher's website
