Archives by Tag 'African'
African Animal Alphabet
Tweet Antelopes leap! Elephants roam! Lions stalk and zebras gallop! Wild creatures from all over the African continent scamper through the pages of this delightful book, giving beginning readers a fascinating way to learn the alphabet while discovering some of their favorite animals. Award-winning filmmakers and photographers Dereck and Beverly Joubert bring their vivid images [...]
Dragons, ogres, and scary things;: Two African folktales
Tweet Two tales, one about a magic drum with the power to make animals dance and another about a child-stealing ogre. Dragons, ogres, and scary things;: Two African folktales VISIT THE LINK ABOVE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THIS ITEM VISIT OUR STORE Buy Books On About and find ANY book you want, post [...]
The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family
Tweet On January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at K’obama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obama’s rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this gathering took a special pride in the [...]
Soul Stories: African American Christian Education
Tweet In this revision of Soul Stories, Dr. Wimberly moves even more in the direction of Christian Education with African American families. Soul stories link persons’ everyday life with the Christian Scriptures. The soul stories in this revised volume take on a cross-generational orientation with emphasis on linking stories of family identities, events, relationships, and [...]
African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor
Tweet Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950′s Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single. African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor VISIT THE LINK [...]
Modern African Drama
Tweet The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. “Backgrounds and Criticism” presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured [...]
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy
Tweet This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit and the Amos’n’Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. Watkins [...]
Benita, an African romance
Tweet Benita, an African romance is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Henry Rider Haggard is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Henry Rider Haggard then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Benita, an African romance VISIT THE LINK ABOVE IF [...]
Ladies’ Pages: African American Women’s Magazines and the Culture That Made Them
Tweet Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. In Ladies Pages, Noliwe Rooks sheds light on the most influential African American women’s magazines and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Focusing on three [...]
The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South
Tweet New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus Ascare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or [...]