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Books by Maulana Karenga
Introduction to Black Studies /
Selections from Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt /
The Book of Coming Forth by Day
Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture
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Million Man March: Day of Absence
Handbook of Black Studies /
Maat, the Moral Idea in Ancient Egypt /
Kemet and the African Worldview
Kawaida Theory: An African Communitarian Philosophy
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Dr. Maulana Karenga
Founder of Kwanzaa
Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Black Studies
at California State University, Long Beach. He is also chair of the President's
Task Force on Multicultural Education and Campus Diversity at California State
University, Long Beach. Dr. Karenga holds two Ph.D.'s; his first in
political science with focus on the theory and practice of nationalism (United
States International University) and his second in social ethics with a focus on
the classical African ethics of ancient Egypt (University of Southern
California).
He also is the director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African
Studies, Los Angeles, and national chairman of The Organization Us, a
cultural and social change organization. The Organization Us which simply means
us Black people, is so named to stress the communitarian focus of the
organization and its philosophy, Kawaida, which is an ongoing synthesis of the
best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world. Dr.
Karenga and Us have had a profound and far-reaching effect on Black intellectual
and political culture. Through the teaching and practice of Kawaida, Us emerged
in the 60's as a vanguard organization. Us has played a vanguard role in shaping
the Black Arts Movement, Black Studies, Black Student Union Movement,
Afrocentricity, rites of passage programs, the study of ancient Egyptian culture
and the founding of the Association for the Study of Classical African
Civilizations, the independent school movement, and African life-cycle
ceremonies, the Simba Wachanga youth movement, and Black theological and ethical
discourse.
Dr. Karenga and Us have also played a key role in Black United Front
efforts serving on the founding and executive committee of the Black Power
Conferences of the 60's, the National Black United Front, the National African
American Leadership Summit, the Black Leadership Retreat and the Million Man
March/Day of Absence. They also created the National Association of Kawaida
Organizations (NAKO) as a cooperative framework for the many organizations
who subscribe to Kawaida philosophy but maintain their own independent
structures. Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 1995, Us continues its
activities under the motto, "Anywhere we are, Us is" and with three
baisc focuses of "Struggle, service and institution-building."
Dr. Karenga is author of numerous scholarly articles and twelve books.
Included in his works are Introduction to Black Studies, the most widely
used intro text in Black Studies; his retranslation and commentary on ancient
Egyptian texts which is titled, Selections From The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of
Ancient Egypt, Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture,
and The Book of Coming Forth By Day. An activist-scholar of national and
international recognition, he has lectured on the life and struggle of African
peoples on the major campuses of the U.S.A. and in Africa, the People's Republic
of China, Cuba, Trinidad, Britain and Canada.
Dr. Karenga is also widely known as the creator of Kwanzaa, an
African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated also in Africa, the
Caribbean, South America--especially Brazil, and African communities in Britain
and other European countries.
Moreover, he is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship,
leadership and community service including: The National Leadership Award for
Outstanding Scholarly Achievements in Black Studies from the National Council
for Black Studies and The Diop Exemplary Leadership Award from the Department of
African American Studies--Temple University. He also served as a Visiting
Professor in Black Politics at Stanford University and as a Distinguished
Visiting Scholar in Black Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Finally, Dr. Karenga, as chairman of Us, served as a member of the
executive council of the National Organizing Committee of the Million Man
March/Day of Absence and authored the Mission Statement for this joint
project, as well as co-edited the recent book: The Million Man March/Day of
Absence: A Commemorative Anthology.
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait
By Molefi Kete Asante
In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and widespread celebratory holiday based on his philosophy of Kawaida, he is an activist-scholar committed to a "dignity-affirming" life for all human beings. Asante examines the sources of Karenga's intellectual preoccupations and demonstrates that Karenga's concerns with the liberation narratives and mythic realities of African people are rooted in the best interests of a collective humanity. The book shows Karenga to be an intellectual giant willing to practice his theories in order to manifest his intense emotional attachment to culture, truth, and justice. Asante's enlightening presentation and riveting critique of Karenga's works reveal a compelling account of a thinker whose contributions extend far beyond the Academy. Although Karenga began his career as a student activist, a civil rights leader, a Pan Africanist, and a culturalist, he ultimately succeeds in turning his fierce commitment to truth toward dissecting political, social, and ethical issues. Asante carefully analyzes Karenga's important works on Black Studies, but also his earlier works on culture and his later works on ethics, such as The Husia, and Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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