by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Blog
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.
by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 Memoir is a great genre to re-discover Black histories. This text by Harlem fashion legend “Dapper Dan” (Daniel Day) reviews his Harlem life from tenements as a child to throwing dice in the 1970s to selling iconic fashion...
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.
by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 Civil rights activist Michelle Alexander looked into the history of mass incarceration in the U.S. and traced its roots back to the Jim Crow era. She argues that there has been a “racial caste system” in the U.S., which has...
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.
by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 This historic book by Beverly Daniel Tatum offers insights into the process of community making among Black and African-Americans in predominantly White spaces. It raises issues about how the integration of schools and previously...
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.
by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 In 1927, anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is a wealth of knowledge about Black life in the early 1900s. Interviewed in Alabama, eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis told Hurston about his experience as an enslaved...
