BOOKS
Higher Learning: Hip Hop in the Ivory
Tower (2019)
Hip Hop Studies came of age in the 1990s as purveyors of the culture became scholars and proselytized the academic merits of the music and lifestyle. Higher Learning: Hip Hop in the Ivory Tower features a collection of instructive articles by educators in multiple fields who share their successful Hip Hop-based pedagogical strategies. Written to encourage deep learning among millennials, these experts evaluate the intellectual discourse surrounding Hip Hop and use its uniqueness to teach a wide range of academic subjects. This anthology is a valuable source of Hip Hop based information and an exchange of ideas that can close the generation gap for decades to come.
Featuring:
"The Crisis of the Hip-Hop Intellectual"
"Hip-Hop in the Black Studies Canon"
"Hip-Hop Feminist Media Studies"
"Black Men's Health and Manhood: A Hip-Hop Approach"
"African Hip-Hop as Literature in African Studies Writing Courses"
Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings (2018)
Cross-disciplinary and broad in its approach, Black Power Encyclopedia: From "Black Is Beautiful" to Urban Uprisings explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States some 50 years ago. The entries examine the key players, organizations and institutions, trends, and events of the period, enabling readers to better understand the ways in which African Americans broke through racial barriers, developed a positive identity, and began to feel united through racial pride and the formation of important social change organizations. The encyclopedia also covers the important impact of the more militant segments of the movement, such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers.
"This outstanding portrait of a fascinating and influential chapter of American life is indispensable for any library serving those interested in African American studies, cultural studies, and race relations."
―Library Journal, Starred Review
Nine Lives of a Black Panther (2014)
Nine Lives of a Black Panther is a story of the Los Angeles branch of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and gives a blow-by-blow account of how it prepared for and survived a massive military-style SWAT attack on December 8, 1969. Five hours and five thousand rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. From a tactical standpoint, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) considered the encounter a disaster. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory. A key contributor to that victory was the nineteen-year-old rank-and-file member of the BPP Wayne Pharr.
“Wayne Pharr’s riveting book opens on December 8, 1969, when he and other Panthers defended themselves against a morning attack mounted by the Los Angeles police department SWAT team on the Central Avenue headquarters. Nine Lives of a Black Panther continues to illuminate the experiences that led him to commit his young life to the black revolutionary struggle, a captivating saga of the Southern California Black Panther Party trials, murders, splitting rivalries, and splits rarely explained in print."
―Kathleen Cleaver, former communications secretary, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and author of "Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party"
African Americans in Los Angeles (2010)
The notion of Los Angeles as a wonderful place of opportunity contributed to the western migration of thousands of Americans, including African Americans escaping racism and violence in the South. But Los Angeles blacks encountered a white backlash, and the doors of opportunity were closed in the form of housing covenants, job discrimination, and school segregation. African Americans fought for equality, building strength in community and collective identity that became their ongoing Los Angeles legacy. This story, encapsulated in vintage photographs, encompasses the settlers of African descent, anti slavery and anti discrimination efforts, and their cultural contributions. The story of African Americans in Los Angeles is one of promise, dreams, and opportunity realized through survival, willfulness, and foresight.
"The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all."
―Arcadia Publishing
If We Must Die (2008)
An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.
Breaking the Silence: Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors (2005)
If We Must Die is a narrative and compilation of commentaries by African American leaders, intellectuals, and average citizens on wars fought by the United States. The book uses the rich material of political and social commentary as it seeks to articulate the concerns, mood, and memory of African Americans in the context of global political realities.
Organized chronologically, by America's major wars, If We Must Die offers an impressively wide array of viewpoints from such diverse figures as Molly Pitcher, Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, and more.
“With meticulous research, rich insight, and careful selection, Karin L. Stanford has given voice to a coterie of previously voiceless activists and thinkers. This startling collection of wise, funny, angry, and ultimately human reactions of black Americans on the issues of war and peace demands the widest exposure possible. This historic map of black opinion with Dr. Stanford’s brilliant introduction is timely and a singular contribution for which due praise is admirably deserved.”
―Clarence Lusane, American University, School of International Service.
Cancer survivors, their family members, and their friends will find comfort in these inspirational stories told by black cancer patients. Covering every facet of the disease as it affects a person's life, including diagnosis, treatment, family involvement, spiritual strength, and healing, these stories, poems, journal entries, and letters address such complex issues as coping with the shock of the initial diagnosis, deciding among various forms of treatments, and dealing with conflicting emotions of anger, sadness, and hope. Helping to heal the mind, body, and spirit, these courageous and thoughtful reflections seek to lighten the burden that all cancer survivors and those who care for them must bear. Celebrated poet and cancer survivor Nikki Giovanni contributes a moving introduction to these inspirational pieces.
"It is rare to be able to hear, so intimately, the voices of those who have experienced cancer themselves or with a close family member. For health care professionals and the public at large, it is invaluable to hear the reactions, feelings, experiences, and the hopes of this group of people. This is a tremendous contribution to health and medicine!"
―David Satcher, M.D., 16th U.S. Surgeon General and Director of the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine
Black Political Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2002)
An invaluable resource that documents the Black Power Movement by its cultural representation and promotion of self-determination and self-defense, and showcases the movement's influence on Black communities in America from 1965 to the mid-1970s.
Questions of focus, accountability, structure, and relevance have surrounded Civil Rights Organizations since the modern Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968. Political scientists Ollie A. Johnson III and Karin L. Stanford have assembled a group of scholars who examine the leadership, membership, structure, goals, ideology, activities, accountability, and impact of contemporary black political organizations and their leaders. A primary question these scholars sought to answer is how have these organizations adapted to the changing socio political environment.
“Essential reading for those interested in Black civil society in the post-civil rights era.”
―Charles Henry, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“[A] worthwhile collection that examines the role of the country's leading black organizations in the post-civil rights era”
―New York Press
Beyond the Boundaries: Reverend Jesse Jackson and International Affairs (1997)
This is the first book-length study of Jesse Jackson's international activities and foreign-policy agenda. It locates Jackson’s efforts within the context of citizen diplomacy, generally an African-American involvement in international affairs particularly. Jackson’s expeditions to Syria, Central America and Cuba, during his 1984 presidential election bid, and his 1986 trip to Southern Africa are discussed in detail. Ultimately, this book places his activism abroad in theoretical and historical perspective and shows how it belongs to a tradition of U.S. citizen diplomacy as old as the Republic.
“This is an excellent book, one that attests to the brilliant work of the author. What I like most about it is that it takes the paradigm of citizen diplomacy and demonstrates theoretically how the study of Jesse Jackson exemplifies the paradigm. It really is a tour de force.”
―Elliott P Skinner, Columbia University, former US Ambassador to Upper Volta/Burkina Faso
