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Books by Clarence J. Munford
Production relations, class and Black liberation: A
Marxist perspective in Afro-American studies
(1978)
The Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the
French West Indies 1625-1715
(1991)
Race
and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st
Century (1996)
Race
and Civilization: The Rebirth of Black Centrality
(2003)
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Race and
Reparations
A Black Perspective for the 21st
Century
By Clarence J. Munford
Interpreting the skein of evidence trailing from the
racism inherent in white civilization, the author of this book
rescues Black nationalism from junk-jive hallucinations and
grounds it in the political-economic realities of racist
America.
Dr. Munford wields the historic method with surgical
precision to examine issues vital to today's African
Americans-unemployment, the economic redundancy thrust upon
Black youths, and Black capitalism and the role of the
entrepreneur; the criminalization of Black males, police
brutality, and the political economy of prisons; health,
education, miscegenation, and the system of
welfare-for-white-folks; affirmative action, parity and
compensation for racial discrimination past and present,
majority Black electoral districting, constitutional amendments
to guarantee proportionate Black political representation,
"Rainbow" alliances and 21st century strategy and
tactics, and the meaning of latter-day Black Power.
Infused
with the spirit of Pan-Africanism, this book exposes the global
incompatibility between white world supremacy and Black
liberation. It confronts all Africans-continentals and
diasporans-with the twenty-first century's stark imperative:
Power through reparations? Or the holocaust of continued white
racism?
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Dr. Clarence J. Munford is
Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and History at the
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, near Toronto. He was born
in Massillon, Ohio on November 18, 1935. C.J. Munford, an
African American with dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, has taught
in universities in Nigeria, Europe and U.S., in a college
teaching career that began in 1959.
He introduced the first courses in Black
history in an Ontario university in 1969. He is the recipient of
the 1997 African Heritage Studies Association Book Award for
Race
and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st
Century. Munford is active in the N’COBRA campaign for
reparations for African Americans.
He is a scholar and activist who has authored
numerous articles, addresses and essays, and a three-volume
autopsy of early Black enslavement in the West Indies, entitled Black Ordeal (1991). He has focused on the theory and practice of
revolutionary nationalism from a Pan-Africanist slant. |
Munford is the lead discoverer of civilizational
historicism, the theory of human history from a Black
vantage point. His newest work, a volume entitled
Race
and Civilization: The Rebirth of Black Centrality,
elaborates and substantiates empirical discoveries presented in
earlier works.
Race and Civilization
was awarded the 2002 AHSA Edward Blyden Book Award. This
treatise offers civilizational historicism as the theory and
practice of World Black struggle against global white supremacy
in the 21st century.
Builds on the author's
previous work,
Race and Reparations(1996) and in a
three-volume study of the Atlantic slave trade,
Black Ordeal
(1991). Bib, index, 443pp, USA.. AFRICA WORLD PRESS,
086543896X 2002 paperback
Production relations, class and Black
liberation: A Marxist perspective in Afro-American studies
(1978)
Race, Racism, & Reparations (Corlett,
2003)
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
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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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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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