How were blacks in American slavery formed, out of a multiplicity of African ethnic peoples, into a single people? In this major study of Afro-American culture,

In this major study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading Afro-American scholar, explains how different African peoples interacted during the 19th century to achieve a c

The story of the influential Black nationalist organization and its leader, the man who invented Kwanza.

In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and So