By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere 10 years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become 'white'? This titl…
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Kongresmedlem og borgerretsforkæmper John Lewis fortæller om sin barndom og opvækst i Alabama og sin livslange kamp for de sortes rettigheder i USA
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), født på Jamaica, var den første sorte lederskikkelse i USAs historie og fortaler for panafrikanismen
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni M…
Our national conversation about race is out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Kitwana teases apart the culture of hip-hop to illuminate how race is being lived b…
A behind-the-scenes account of the "blacklivesmatter movement" that shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free jazz/black power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French l…
