Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780451627261

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: mentor book

Year: 1986

Pages: 518

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:58 p.m.

Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban... Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780451047373

ISBN-10: 0451047370

Language: English

Publisher: New American Library

Year: 1965

Pages: 429

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

"'BLACK PROTEST is by far the fullest documentary history of three and one-half centuries of Blackican protest and agitation available at the price. The editor provides intelligent commentary throughout, and the book pulls no punches. Its message is neither hopefull nor threatening, but realistic; and among the realities is that Blacks have tried virtually everything to secure their right--petitions, the vote, court action, demonstrations, marches, appeasement, threats, nonviolence, violence, alliances with whites, black nationalism--and still, for some reason, in this democracy, have been resisted, put off and denied. This is the essence of American Black history, both protest and oppression.' - Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times" -- Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780449308417

ISBN-10: 0449308413

Language: English

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Year: 1968

Pages: 576

Cataloged: Sept. 1, 2025, 2:51 p.m.

A stinging critique of Western Marxism, counterposing its complicity with imperialist logic against a resurgent anti-imperialism Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation—characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-communism—is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core, including those affiliated with the Frankfurt School, French Theory, and operaismo, as well as Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Slavoj Žižek, among others. His critique also has wide-reaching implications for trend-setting discourses inspired by this coterie of intellectuals, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to subaltern studies and beyond. Far from being a negative undertaking, however, this book is grounded in the positive project of reigniting anti-imperialist Marxism. As a complement to the Italian edition of Western Marxism, this first-ever English translation also features the unprecedented publication of a major lecture that demystifies “Western Marxism” and its role in imperialists’ efforts to denigrate the achievements of actually existing socialism. Raising the stakes of what it means to produce critical theory, Western Marxism will surely provoke wide debate and a reevaluation of hallowed canons. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781685900632

ISBN-10: 1685900631

Language: English

Publisher: Monthly Review Press

Year: 2024

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 5:19 p.m.

In this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama’s presidential election team, presents stunning new research that illuminates just how deep and jagged these racial fault lines continue to be. He has surveyed battleground voters from 2008 through the 2016 primary season tracking racial aversion and its impact over the course of the Obama presidency. Given the heightened racial aversion as a consequence of the first non-white male living in the White House, the rise of Trump was a predictable backlash. The election of the nation’s first Black president does not mean that we live in a post-racial society; it means that we are now at a critical historical tipping point demographically and culturally in America—and this tipping point is indeed the wolf at the door for many anxious white Americans who are now politically behaving accordingly given this perceived threat. The panicked response of the waning white majority to what they perceive as the catastrophe of a Black president can be heard in every cry to “take back our country.” This panic has resulted in the elevation of an overt and unapologetic racist as the nominee of one of America’s major political parties.

ISBN-13: 9781621343608

ISBN-10: 162134360X

Language: English

Publisher: Water Street Press

Year: 2016

Pages: 218

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Born on a slave ship enroute to the West Indies, orphaned by the age of two and taken to England by his owner, Ignatius Sancho rose from servitude to include among his friends noted artists, writers, actors, and prominent politicians. Sancho first gained celebrity when one of his letters appeared in the novelist Laurence Sterne's Letters (1775) and, inspired by the editor's desire to show "that an untutored African may possess abilities equal to a European", two volumes of Sancho's letters were published shortly after his death. The literary quality and the historical importance of the letters endure, revealing a man of sensitivity, intellect, and charm, while also presenting an unusual chronicle of the times. Sancho offers young men fatherly advice on their futures; writes flirtatiously to young women; relates the joys and sorrows of family life; swaps literary jokes; and comments perceptively on the issues of the day. His thoughts on race and politics -- including his criticism of British imperialism in India, the complicity of Africans in the slave trade, and the blatant racism that flourishes in his adopted homeland -- will be of particular interest to twentieth-century readers. While some letters may have been abridged because of the original editor's concerns about public sensitivities, they remain a powerful testament to the injustices of racial discrimination. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780140436372

ISBN-10: 0140436375

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 1998

Pages: 336

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 2:46 p.m.

It is due to the success of the trade union movement in the national liberation movement that the colonial government suppressed prominent trade unions and attacked TU leaders like Makhan Singh, Fred Kubai, Pio Gama Pinto and Bildad Kaggia. It also passed on colonial laws to the independent Kenya government so as to ensure that future trade unions were forced to take the non-radical approach to meet worker needs. They thus created imperialist-oriented and led trade unions that bedevil working class politics to this day. There are valuable lessons to be learnt from the history of the militant trade unions in Kenya and also from understanding how colonialism and imperialism enforced changes that made the trade unions ineffective after independence. The selections in this book recall relevant events in the history of the militant trade union movement in Kenya and record the contribution that the trade union movement made to Mau Mau and to Kenya's war of independence. The Kenya Resists Series covers different aspects of resistance by people of Kenya to colonialism and imperialism. It reproduces material from books, unpublished reports, research and oral or visual testimonies. The three aspects chosen for the first three publications in the Series - Mau Mau, Trade Unions and People's Resistance - make up the three pillars of resistance of the people of Kenya. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9789966189097

ISBN-10: 9966189092

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 2018

Pages: 118

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 2:41 p.m.

Voted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize.Sharing the language and religion or the Afrikaners bent on her people's subjugation, Poppie Nongena - a Xhosa woman born in an Upington township - has no choice but to negotiate the riptide of structural violence that is apartheid South Africa. Rootless, her ailing husband emasculated by legislation and her children bearing witness to her degradation, Poppie is forced on a spiritual and cultural journey from Lambert's Bay to a Cape Town township to Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape. Her heartache is the pain of a nation - an emblem of how the human spirit may strain under the weight of tyranny, yet adapts and prevails.Written to break the barrier of ignorance in late-1970s South Africa, The Long, Journey of Poppie Nongena - unsentimental but sensitive - documents a harrowing life lived in a time that a country would rather forget. A literary and commercial success when it was released in Afrikaans in 1979, Elsa Joubert's searing indictment of inhumanity remains universally relevant almost 40 years later in a world in which political dispensations continue to rise and fall. It has won a clutch of literary prizes, including the CNA and Hofmeyr, and has been translated into 13 languages and sold around the world. In 2002 it was selected by a panel of 16 international academi and writers as one of the 100 best African novels of the 20th century. Source: Publisher The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena is a novel by Elsa Joubert, published in 1978 in Afrikaans. Joubert translated the book into English in 1980. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9780393334319

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Year: 1980

Pages: 300

Cataloged: Aug. 26, 2025, 2:37 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781869886004

ISBN-10: 1869886003

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 1986

Pages: 22

Cataloged: July 2, 2025, 1:29 p.m.