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A2 is a qualitative inquiry that pushes the bounds of multidisciplinary scholarship through poetics, prose, and academic discourse. Though fairly new, poetic inquiry as a research method has been found in "social science disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, nursing, social work, geography, women's/feminist studies and education," (Prendergast, 2009, p. 545). Harnessing this methodology, Dr. Ayo Sekai ventures to push the limits of academic scholarship by interrogating poetic discourse to address stigmas, norms and psycho-cultural perceptions weaponized against Black people through language. Recognizing the usage of language in oppressive systems, A2 takes readers on an intellectual journey that harnesses the Black experience through poetically informed research, blending the socio-cultural lens of the spoken word. With a foundation of political science, and Sekai's unique voice in the field of Linguistic Imperialism, this text provides eye-opening perspectives through its titular scholarly poetical science discourse.

The American Demagogue analyzes Trump's presidency through the lens of communication and Africology.

"A powerful, well-researched indictment of racist media in the United States."-Kirkus Reviewshttps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marquita-m-gammage/media-racism/As contemporary media continues to be a battleground for the portrayal of Black women, Gammage explores the troubling proliferation of racially informed media depictions of the lives of Black women, providing essential insights into the intersection of race, gender, and media representation in today's world.Media Racism: The Impact of Media Injustice on Black Women's Lives establishes a critical framework for examining the role of media in shaping the lives of Black women. It confronts the alarming scarcity of research dedicated to understanding the significance of media in perpetuating life disparities among this demographic. Through meticulous research and analysis, tables and figures, Gammage sheds light on the multifaceted effects of media racism, encompassing physical, mental, cultural, political, and social dimensions.

"A powerful, well-researched indictment of racist media in the United States."-Kirkus Reviewshttps://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marquita-m-gammage/media-racism/As contemporary media continues to be a battleground for the portrayal of Black women, Gammage explores the troubling proliferation of racially informed media depictions of the lives of Black women, providing essential insights into the intersection of race, gender, and media representation in today's world.Media Racism: The Impact of Media Injustice on Black Women's Lives establishes a critical framework for examining the role of media in shaping the lives of Black women. It confronts the alarming scarcity of research dedicated to understanding the significance of media in perpetuating life disparities among this demographic. Through meticulous research and analysis, tables and figures, Gammage sheds light on the multifaceted effects of media racism, encompassing physical, mental, cultural, political, and social dimensions.

Since its first release in 2017, Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children has captivated educators and professionals in the field of education with overwhelming praise offering both theoretical insights and practical guidance on pedagogy. While its focus is on empowering students of African descent, the principles presented in this book transcend ethnic boundaries and are designed to equip teachers with the tools to create revolutionary pedagogy to teach all learners. In the second edition, Asante challenges the existing education system and promotes a commitment to excellence for all students; corrects distorted information and helps educators recognize dysconscious racism; provides guidance for educators in urban environments, addressing unique challenges and unlocking the potential of every student; explores the pressing issue of urban violence and calls for an educational revolution rooted in cultural identity and personal growth; shares personal experiences, lesson plans, and ideas to underscore the transformative power of culturally enriched education; re-centers dislocated African American students and expands the knowledge of all other students in the classroom; and inspires educators and educational professionals to reshape education and create a brighter future for all learners. Whether you're an educator seeking innovative approaches to teaching or an educational professional dedicated to promoting inclusivity and empowerment, Revolutionary Pedagogy is an essential resource.

The Journey of Kamau Miller: HipHop Composite Counterstories for Black Men Teachers is a deeply compelling and creative book that delves into the life of Kamau Miller, a determined third-grade teacher hailing from New York City. Set in the gritty backdrop of the Edenwald Projects in the Bronx, the story offers readers an intimate glimpse into Kamau's world as he grapples with the unique struggles of being a Black male teacher, the profound influence of hip-hop culture, and the ongoing quest for self-discovery. The book intricately weaves themes of identity, education, community, and empowerment while paying homage to the legacy of Derrick A. Bell. The Journey of Kamau Miller not only honors the resilience and strength of Black male educators but also amplifies the countless voices that are overlooked and unheard. It offers an inspiring and transformative reading experience illuminating the intricate complexities of life, love, and the relentless pursuit of making a profound impact in the realm of education. With its unapologetically creative approach, this work captivates readers with its accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking storytelling. It stands as a tribute to Black male teachers celebrating their experiences and advocating for change and progress in the field of education.

Over half of college presidents (55%) are planning to step down from their positions within the next five years. This impending change in leadership, particularly among underrepresented groups, presents an opportunity not only to diversify leadership but more importantly to address "the need for leaders who understand the experiences of racially and ethnically diverse student bodies, who can identify barriers that mask merit, and who can garner support to make campuses welcoming and inclusive spaces for all." Through personal reflections and insights, the authors in this volume provide a comprehensive analysis of the experiences and challenges faced by Black women leaders in community colleges, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and predominantly White institutions (PWIs) and offer a comprehensive, practical, and research-based exploration of executive academic leadership, providing valuable insights and guidance for current and aspiring leaders in higher education and the importance of traditional and nontraditional leadership pathways to an everchanging academic environment. Included is a powerful call to action for institutions of higher education to prioritize diversity and inclusion in their leadership structures and to recognize and support invaluable contributions of Black women leaders in shaping the future of education.

A pioneer in his field and founding member of the Association of Black Psychologists, Dr. Wade Nobles's life's work has been no less than a formal engagement in the ongoing theoretical development and programmatic application of African (Black) psychology, African-centered thought, and cultural grounding to address the liberation and restoration of the African mind and worldwide development of African people. In his new book Skh: From Black Psychology to the Science of Being, Dr. Nobles will revolutionize how we internalize and operationalize psychological processes and reframe how we think of psychology. Through his intellectual journey, Nobles discusses the advent of the discipline of Black psychology and details its evolution to the science of being. With a brief critique of the inadequacy of the Western grand narrative, the "big ideas" essential to exploring the fundamental and necessary epistemic correction will include an explication of African (Bantu) thought and worldview. Nobles will detail the need to "return to the source" and explore Bantu episteme as grounding.

Illmatic Consequences combines social science and hip-hop studies to address disinformation and propaganda that distorted political discourse after the 2020 election. In this text, scholars and activists come together to clap back on the lies that animated attacks at local school boards and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. capitol. Following a thematic structure, these contributors address "The Crisis," "The Clapback," and "The Consequences" using hip-hop and Afrofuturism as models for analysis and solutions to the cultural divisions in the United States. The cycle of progress followed by backlash threatens the stability of world affairs in the 21st century. These writers offer clear insight across multiple disciplines to create an inclusive civil society. Inspired by the work of David Roediger, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, and Carol Anderson, Illmatic Consequences stretches the vision and lexicon of Nasir Jones to a new generation of artists. Readers of this text will become the vanguard of a global society dedicated to freedom, justice, and decolonization.

What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration, and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy's racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing civil rights, and creating and promulgating renaissance after renaissance as social movements while inspiring the world to take note? Wonder no more. Dr. Molefi K. Asante has eloquently penned an emotional spectrum of poems truly reflecting the spirit, soul, and humanity of Black people in 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People, 1619-2019. The substantive and meaningful reflections on and about Black life, and the social conditions it has encountered and often endured over 400 years, fosters a compelling need for readers to journey page-by-page through each poem. With effortless ease to read, Dr. Asante weaves a tapestry of Black strength, vulnerability, and resolve unlike any other collection of Black poetic expressions through what is likely to become a literary favorite though the brilliance of 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People, 1619-2019.

"If there''s anything that has prevented human beings from being human beings, then it is the discourse of racist ideas. Being Human Being cogently and clearly reveals the illusion, disruption, and distraction of racist ideas, which have left people conceptually stranded from the fullness of humanity. And this moving book goes a step further. Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove return us to the ancient idea of Ma''at-thus returning us to humanity." -Ibram X. Kendi, PhDAndrew W. Mellon Professor in the HumanitiesProfessor of HistoryBoston UniversityDuring a time of high racial tension, Being Human Being seeks to dispel divisiveness, and instead present a vision of a united humanity. With scientific basis established from The Human Genome Project, the authors explore what it means to be human, the myth of race, and the importance of common identity. The conclusions of the Human Genome Project discredit those who deny humanity''s genesis on the African continent; and, they allow for new examination of the fictitious basis upon which modern society justifies its divisions, privileges, and punishments. In this book, the discourse navigates the complex illusion of race by tracing its cultural and religious origins. Furthering the ideas brought forth in Ibram X. Kendi''s critically acclaimed book How to Be An Antiracist, the authors express the power in ending the language of race entirely, bringing forth a new era in which racism no longer plagues the human experience. With in depth evidence surrounding the colloquial misuse of the term "race," Being Human Being argues that the term human, robust and newly re-envisioned, eradicates the need for the illusion of categorical racial boundaries. The authors, in their acknowledgement of the differences that exist among humans, found that such distinctions are more easily explained culturally rather than "racially." Even so, habitual reference to these racial partitions are ingrained into many aspects of the contemporary landscape. Knowing this, Being Human Being addresses the challenges of exchanging race for humanity within mainstream media, academic circles, and pop culture.  Being Human Being depicts the importance of education in combating those who benefit from, and promote, racism. Educating the masses would allow multicultural, pluralistic societies to be achieved in a practical way. The authors suggest that humanity is hindered by its disunity, and that through concepts like Ma''aticity, the ancient way of becoming human, society can achieve its highest potential. Featuring an array of examples, illustrations, and theoretical models, Being Human Being demonstrates that the only race is the human race. 

Who are we? Is a central question asked throughout the African Diaspora. This handbook offers answers to that burning question based on ancient African principles that relate to the critical role of teaching our children and drawn from Nah Dove's UNICEF-sponsored work in Ghana. Grounded in the love of African humanity-women, men, girls, and boys, this handbook counters anti-African and anti-Black beliefs that have been propounded over centuries. This work recognizes a range of African cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors every bit as wide as there was amongst the different peoples who conquered Africa.In Afrocentric School: BluePrint, the cultural legacy and heritage of Africa is embraced to reawaken the cultural memory. Dove provides a foundational curriculum for children aged 3-15 years, with standards based on expectations developed from child development and education baseline studies. Readers will learn how to:· Provide students the opportunity to begin study of the world, its people, concepts, and history from the view of the African child's heritage· Identify African principles and teachings· Correct distorted information· Develop lesson plans that guides the teacher, parent, student, and reader in understanding African cultural history from an Afrocentric theoretical perspective

Radical Insurgencies draws and translates wisdom from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy to stitch together various social and political concerns presented by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante in various academic settings. The book offers selected portions of significant speeches, an adaptation from the author's The American Demagogue, and a selection of conference papers presented in British Columbia, Zimbabwe, and the Chinese Communication Conference in 2011.

When the ecological crisis has grown to new heights, Akosua finds herself on a mission to save the world. When she is contacted by Yemanja, a goddess who rules over the seas, Akosua embarks on a quest to share the goddess's message and discover the meaning of life itself. Join Akosua as she explores new lands, cultures, and identities to protect the place she calls home. Though she doubts herself at times, Akosua proves that the wits and compassion of one girl can make all the difference. Readers will enjoy:¿ A fantasy work told from an Afrocentric perspective.¿ Culturally significant themes.¿ A morally rich novel relevant for teens and young adults.¿ A story told from the perspective of a black girl.

These authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often avoided by Eurocentrists-of any complexion. Without the "lions of Africa" speaking and writing about their narratives, the fields of literature, philosophy, social science, history, and psychology would cede to those without the slightest idea about the African knowledge base or how to add to it. Thus, the authors in this volume speak loudly and write deftly and definitively to erect a new phalanx of liberated minds. Readers will learn how Black people of the African Diaspora have a story that transcends Eurocentric teachings and ideology. The intricate knowledge of history, physical sciences, and social sciences is rich in the scholarship of Black educators. We Will Tell Our Own Story endeavors to navigate the spaces of sociopolitical concepts by shedding new light and thinking strategy. The stories are different when the lions are not the victims but can display agency in the hunt and hunted. The authors in this book logically state the cultural, social, economic, political, and literary facts regarding African people and explore what Africans have said-and will say.

Molefi Kete Asante argues that the infamous historical acts of lynching black men in the United States might be used to describe how many people of the white Right Wing have used various techniques to "string up" presidential objectives. Barack Obama as the first black President of the United States met immediate resistance from a white majority that voted for his opponent in 2008. This was repeated in 2012.Asante contends that whites felt that they had lost "their" country and the only way to act was to prevent Barack Obama from asserting himself as a black man. Asante shows in a compelling manner, by choosing many of the attacks on Obama found in the media, that the President was tied up, roped, and hung out to dry by the white Republican Right. Nevertheless, as Asante explains Barack Obama championed some of the most progressive actions ever addressed by a president.

Few critics have examined Fuller seriously and in some ways his work, like that of other black writers, has fallen outside the gaze of contemporary literary and dramatic writers even though he has received some of the highest awards in the nation. Part of this is because few African American dramatists have been looked at critically or studied in classrooms or spoken of in terms of their philosophy, style, originality, and brilliance. This book brings a critical reading and sympathetic location of Fuller''s drama in the center of African American dramatic and social history.

Slayers are power-wielding demon hunters, and Mystical Levinhaark has wanted to be one her entire life. After training for 17 year, she takes the Slayer test only to find out that she was crawling into her own grave. Tragically falling to her death, she is reborn as an infamous member of the Untamed; a certain class of demon that she'd despised and has been trained to kill as a member of the Slayers. Now she must learn to live as the venomous species that repulses her. What secrets will her experiences as an Untamed uncover? Will her Slayer soul rise above the slaughter or was she always meant to be UNTAMED?A battle of epic proportions is coming. Will she be ready?

Aera is the commander of the Royal Elite, a select group of fighters entrusted with the safety of their countrymen. When a series of murders rattle the kingdom, Aera and her team must rise to face an enemy unlike any they have faced before. With the help of an experienced demon hunter named Slayer, they must decipher a prophecy, defeat supernatural creatures, and stop the world as they know it from being consumed by evil. This dark fantasy explores how the anger of a few can be the downfall of the whole and teases the idea that maybe the monsters we seek can be found within. Readers will enjoy:¿ A nuanced novel with a young, black female lead.¿ A complex ensemble of lovable characters. ¿ A new world of unique concepts, action, and magic.

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