9 Books Published by Howard University Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora collects selected essays from the First and Second African Diaspora Institutes and other essays. This revised second edition, with broader geographical scope than the first edition, places greater emphasis on historical and sociopolitical analysis. New essays that examine the African experience and slavery in the Mediterranean, the black experience in Brazil, African religious retentions in Latin American countries, and essays by women that focus on the experience and contributions of African women of the diaspora address significant areas omitted in the first volume.

Race Contacts and Interracial Relations comprises five lectures that Alain Locke, Howard University professor of philosophy and critic of the Harlem Renaissance, delivered in 1916 at Howard University. Locke examines race and racism in twentieth-century social relations and provides a means of analyzing race and ethnic conflict in relation to economic and political changes in society. He suggests that a way to understand racial conflict is to look at nonracial issues that divide a society and at how race becomes a symbol of those issues and conflicts.
Locke’s early recognition and articulation of Franz Boas’s theory of race in these lectures and his contention that racism is socially generated were intellectual departures at the time. While rejecting the biological basis of race, Locke proposes that the social concept of race could be employed by a minority as a cultural strategy for self-help and self-definition. Thus the lectures show that Locke’s work in African American art and culture grew out of a considered analysis of race and modern society.
In the introduction to this carefully edited volume, Jeffrey Stewart provides background on Alain Locke and other theorists on race whom Locke discusses, situates Locke’s ideas on race within the context of his time, and relates Locke’s lectures to his thought on art and culture and to contemporary arguments on race.

Chronicles the development of noted private and public black collectors and collections, and investigates the state of contemporary collecting. Also discusses black-related memorabilia as collectibles and material culture, and offers suggestions for establishing and preserving private collections.

Book by Lattany, Kristin Hunter, Hunter, Kristin

Soul Clap Hands and Sing (Howard University Press Library of Contemporary Literature)

Howard University Press Library of Contemporary Literature with Foreword by Mel Watkins

Book by Kelley, William Melvin

A collection of poems ( 1964-1973) based on pan-African symbolism and “derived from the history, mythology, and oral traditions of Afro-America.”