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Author: Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9780745322223
ISBN 10: 0745322220
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 20 December 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Highly recommended' -- CHOICE 'This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library whose users want to use cyber-rources to better understand Africa and the Diaspora' -- Dorothy Washington, Librarian for the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University 'Provides an extensive annotation and an interpretation framework for black studies ... no college or community library should be without it' -- Barnes and Noble 'Not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet' -- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line, Michigan State University
[Alkalimat's book] is not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet. -- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line, Michigan State University it provides an extensive annotation and an interpretation framework for black studies...no college or community library should be without it. -- Barnes and Noble This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library whose users want to use cyber-rources to better understand Africa and the Diaspora. -- Dorothy Washington, Librarian for the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University Highly recommended -- CHOICE ...accessible and straightforward...invaluable. -- Bacchra Online
[Alkalimat,s book] is not only an invaluable resource for all interested in the Black experience, but it is also testimony to the proliferation of African American voices on the Internet. -- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line, Michigan State University it provides an extensive annotation and an interpretation framework for black studies...no college or community library should be without it. -- Barnes and Noble This stellar array of Africana digital archives, primary source material, streaming audio and video, syllabi, e-texts, music, photos, art, literature, bibliographies and webliographies should be in every personal and institutional library whose users want to use cyber-rources to better understand Africa and the Diaspora. -- Dorothy Washington, Librarian for the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University Highly recommended -- CHOICE ...accessible and straightforward...invaluable. -- Bacchra Online
Author Information
Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught and directed academic programs across the US, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and China. His activism extends from having been chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, to a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress in 1998.
