Connecting With My African Roots

Author : Carmen Barclay Subryan
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1664175253

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Connecting with My African Roots by Carmen Barclay Subryan Pdf

This book is not only about connection but also about discovery. As an adult, through my years or reading and research, I became aware of the theories revolving around Pangea (Pangaea), the super continent existing over 300 million years ago that included Africa and South America. The theory is that it broke apart to form the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean, as well as many islands. If one looks at a globe or a map, one would see that Africa and South America fit together like a hand in a glove, and if one believes the theory, then these countries share a common ancestry. So even though what became known as The Middle Passage separated the two continents, the people undoubtedly retain the DNA of those ancestors that creates a forever connection between what was and what is. For this reason, the picture of Pangea on my book cover is exceedingly important.

Author : Carmen Barclay Subryan Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664175242

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Connecting with My African Roots by Carmen Barclay Subryan Ph.D. Pdf

This book is not only about connection but also about discovery. As an adult, through my years or reading and research, I became aware of the theories revolving around Pangea (Pangaea), the super continent existing over 300 million years ago that included Africa and South America. The theory is that it broke apart to form the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean, as well as many islands. If one looks at a globe or a map, one would see that Africa and South America fit together like a hand in a glove, and if one believes the theory, then these countries share a common ancestry. So even though what became known as The Middle Passage separated the two continents, the people undoubtedly retain the DNA of those ancestors that creates a forever connection between what was and what is. For this reason, the picture of Pangea on my book cover is exceedingly important.

Author : James E. White,Jean-Gontran Quenum
Publisher : James White
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781591134657

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Roots Recovered! by James E. White,Jean-Gontran Quenum Pdf

The authors provide valuable information specific for African travel and tracing African genealogy using traditional methods, the Internet and DNA technology.

Author : Sheila S. Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742501655

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African Roots/American Cultures by Sheila S. Walker Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Tony Burroughs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0739415018

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Black Roots by Tony Burroughs Pdf

Author : Chris S. Duvall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004530

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The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall Pdf

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.

Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780062891723

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Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty Pdf

“Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.”—Library Journal “A fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.”—Booklist The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations. Koshersoul also explores how food has shaped the journeys of numerous cooks, including Twitty’s own passage to and within Judaism. As intimate, thought-provoking, and profound as The Cooking Gene, this remarkable book teases the senses as it offers sustenance for the soul. Koshersoul includes 48-50 recipes.

Author : Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300244915

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African Americans and Africa by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden Pdf

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.

Author : Kristin Henning
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524748906

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The Rage of Innocence by Kristin Henning Pdf

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse "Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has cruelly stripped from its victims.” —New York Times Book Review Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of rac­ism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White Amer­ica and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adoles­cent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprece­dented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.

Author : Richard Kweku Ezeagu Akinyemi
Publisher : Worital
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798987884317

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Found My People by Richard Kweku Ezeagu Akinyemi Pdf

Come learn of this and be INSPIRED! .................................................................................................................................................................... Discover the POWER of IDENTITY! .................................................................................................................................................................... A life changing experience is waiting for you! .................................................................................................................................................................... I have found my people! You can too! There is a people for me and a people for you! Like a door that you've found in your house that is new! With elaborate furnishings all belonging to you! A people who will welcome and make you feel new! I've found the people for me, now find the people for you! .................................................................................................................................................................... There is great satisfaction in discovering and engaging with your WHOLE identity! .................................................................................................................................................................... There is a growing hunger and dare I say yearning in many melanated people in the US and beyond to connect to our previously unknown ancestral roots. Like them, I have often wondered where I connect on the African continent. So I ventured out to answer that question. In Nov 2013, I took my first trip to Africa, specifically Nigeria. The people told me that I looked like I was from the Igbo and Yoruba people, two of the largest people groups (also known as tribes) in Nigeria, the largest country on the African continent. The visit was only ten days that went by too fast, leaving me yearning to return, but it would be six long years and a divorce before I was able to set my feet on African soil again. Found My People is the inspirational story of how one African American connected to his ancestral roots and the revolutionary way that decision has immeasurably changed and enriched his life! Much more than that it is also a guide for all who want to connect to the roots and culture that has been hidden in your blood since you were born! It is for all who are the members of the hidden diaspora. .................................................................................................................................................................... Now is the time to embrace the greatness in your DNA. .................................................................................................................................................................... Are you ready for the journey?

Author : Melody Herr
Publisher : Heinemann Library
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 0431194084

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African Roots by Melody Herr Pdf

Looks at world black history from prehistoric times to 1440.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780733843

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African Roots by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alondra Nelson
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807027189

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The Social Life of DNA by Alondra Nelson Pdf

The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television shows, websites, and Internet communities, and a booming heritage tourism circuit. The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming. In The Social Life of DNA, Alondra Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race. For over a decade, Nelson has deeply studied this phenomenon. Artfully weaving together keenly observed interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues. In The Social Life of DNA, she explains how these cutting-edge DNA-based techniques are being used in myriad ways, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery: to foster reconciliation, to establish ties with African ancestral homelands, to rethink and sometimes alter citizenship, and to make legal claims for slavery reparations specifically based on ancestry. Nelson incisively shows that DNA is a portal to the past that yields insight for the present and future, shining a light on social traumas and historical injustices that still resonate today. Science can be a crucial ally to activism to spur social change and transform twenty-first-century racial politics. But Nelson warns her readers to be discerning: for the social repair we seek can’t be found in even the most sophisticated science. Engrossing and highly original, The Social Life of DNA is a must-read for anyone interested in race, science, history and how our reckoning with the past may help us to chart a more just course for tomorrow.

Author : Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734482605

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Connections Remembered, the African Origins of Humanity and Civilization by Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester Pdf

The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historical hallmarks on healthy Black identity development. It is an easy-to-read, yet scientifically validated account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. This new edition emphasizes the inextricable linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people are taught through the Eurocentric curricula's expression of African Americans' historical roots. It debunks the flawed and psychically devastating view that Black people's beginnings were as dehumanized plantation slaves. It is written for adults and is concerned with augmenting the education of Black children in American schools especially during their identity-shaping formative years. The book reconnects African and African American history as one continuous narrative, not two disconnected stories; this is key to overcoming our fragmented inner selves and restoring healthy communities. Maps, charts, suggested activities and thought starters are included in each of the eight sections to better engage with the content.

Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307382405

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In Search of Our Roots by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Pdf

The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he profiles nineteen noted African Americans and illuminates their individual family sagas throughout U.S. history.