African and African-American Studies

Racism and The Baptist Bible Fellowship: Segregation, Anti-Communism and Religious Fundamentalism in the American South 1950-1965

Author: 

Lavoie, The Reverend Jeffrey D.

Credentials: 

LL.D, Ph D[History] Exeter University

This research work for the first time discusses the Baptist Bible Fellowship and its connections with segregation during the 1950sand beyond. It includes an examination of some of its key founders and their views of segregation and observes some of the crucial figures who fought for racial equality and integration within this organization. Though many of the founders of this Baptist denomination were segregationists (which could be considered racist in and of itself) some of these individuals held blatant racist views of white supremacy.

Market: 
American Religious history, 20th century, Baptist Church history, Segregation and White Supremacy, Racism in America, Civil Rights History, Southern Regional history 1945-1965, the Black Baptists, Martin Luther King, Anti Communism in American domestic politics
Release Date: 
10/19/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-50-9
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
304
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Recolonization of Africa Today: With Neither Guns nor Bullets (Revised Edition)

Author: 

Mentan, Tatah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin

The need for a revision of this well received and reviewed work was obvious to all serious observers of sub Saharan Africa: The emergence in the last decade of the enormouspolitical, economic and social clout of China, the desire of Magrebi states and Egypt to continue a “southward” policy that includes conversion to Islam, Arab investment and especially control of oil and agricultural lands.

Market: 
African Studies, History of Post Colonial Africa, Sub Saharan Africa,African Economics, Macroeconomics, Development Studies, UN
Release Date: 
03/15/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-17-2 / 978-1936320-17-7
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Caribbean Liberators: Bold and Black Personalities and Organizations 1900-1989

Author: 

Teelucksingh, Jerome

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

This ambitious research monograph discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements) in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies.

Market: 
Modern Caribbean History, Afro-Caribbean organizations, Independence movements in Anglophone Caribbean, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Labor Movements, Liberation Movements 20th c, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados
Release Date: 
03/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-35-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Understanding Contemporary Capitalism: A Marxist Historical / Materialist Interpretation

Author: 

Mentan, Tatah

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin; author of The Recolonization of Africa (Bethesda, 2011)

Is capitalism coming to an end in a manner somewhat similar to communism in the USSR? Events certainly bode ill for the classic view that capitalism will prevail as the greatest source of economic growth and stability. Dr. Mentan maintains that the study of contemporary capitalism must entail both the interrogation of the capitalist mode of production as an abstract-formal object and investigation of the diverse historical forms that capitalism has taken across time and space.

Market: 
Marxist Studies: Marxism, 20th century; historical materialism, Capitalism, neo liberal economics, Economics and the State, African Socialism, Karl Marx
Release Date: 
1/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-37-0
Price: 
$42.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade: Paul Erdmann Isert’s Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788)

Author: 

Isert, P.E.: Translated and Edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes

Credentials: 

Dr. Winsnes is active Scandinavian researcher on West African history

Isert’s book, in the form of 12 long letters evidently written for publication, has excited great interest ever since there publication in 1788. Written in German, not P.E. Isert’s native Danish, the work has long been regarded as a key tool in understanding Danish involvement with the West Africa trade and the establishment of a flourishing Danish West Indian colony (now the American Virgin Islands). This is the first translation from German to English.

Market: 
West Africa, Caribbean Studies, African History 18th c., Ghana, Slavery
Release Date: 
1/2008
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-9988647-01-8
Price: 
$48.95
Trim Size: 
5 ½ x 8 1/2
Pages: 
358
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Modernizing the College Curriculum in American Higher Education: The Case for Transcultural Triangularity

Author: 

Stevenson, Joseph Martin and Ruth Williams, PhD

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Dean, Jackson State University. MS.

As recognized by Schmidt(2005)and Dumas-Hines et al (2001)many institutions of higher learning are facing the challenges of finding ways to diversify their campuses. This work by leading minority educators aims to answer the challenge by creating philosophical statements that reflect a national consensus, setting goals to diversify students and faculty, examining best practices, and implementing activities and action plans. The authors discuss how both historically majority and minority institutions need to broaden and deepen their efforts.

Market: 
EDUCATION: Curriculum Development, Policy, Instructional Strategies, Evaluative Techniques, Minority Studies, Afro-American/Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Educational Planning
Release Date: 
8/2007
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146-36-2
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Race, Racism, and Multiraciality in American Education

Author: 

Knaus, Christopher

Credentials: 

Ph.D. UC Berkeley School of Education; Lecturer, UC,Berkeley D/Afro-American Studies

This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism. The work begins with an overview of the problem of race and racism in education, then discusses the way in which race is typically construed along a continuum of mono-racial thinking( a surprisingly inept conceptualization given the increasing birth rates of mixed or multiracial school populations). The text is then split into seven distinct case studies based on individuals with multiracial, multicultural and ambiguous racial identities and their K-12 experience.

Market: 
Education; Educational Theory; Multicultural Studies, Afro-American studies, Sociology
Release Date: 
9/2006
ISBN: 
978-1933146263 Paperback
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
504
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Witnessing the Pandemic: Irish Print Media and HIV/AIDS in Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: 

Gaffey, Janice

Credentials: 

MPhil Dublin Institute of Technology; Lecturer, Journalism

This is the first research monograph investigating Irish print media coverage of the AIDS/HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and situated within the context of the Irish and global pandemic. It adds to the existing knowledge of the relationship between media and Africa, and more specifically media and HIV/AIDS.

Market: 
AIDS/HIV pandemic, journalism and public affairs, Irish Studies, Media, Internatational Reportage, Sub Saharan/Black Africa, AIDS in Ireland, African Studies
Release Date: 
05/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-24-9
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai

Author: 

Chan, Stephen

Credentials: 

Ph.D., LL.D., Dean of Law and Social Sciences, School of Oriental and African Studies (London)

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction.

Market: 
AFRICAN STUDIES, Zimbabwe, Central Africa, International Relations, African Politics, 20th C, Mass Movements
Release Date: 
07/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-22-2
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization: The Question of Unite or Perish

Author: 

Bongyu, Moye Godwin

Credentials: 

Ph.D University of Yaounde (Political Science), Ph.D Public Policy Analysis, Jackson State University

Dr.Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life.

Market: 
African Studies, Development Issues- Africa, African politics and policy, Regional organizations—Africa, UN studies
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-68-3 / 1933146-68-0
Price: 
$59.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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