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Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait
By Molefi Kete Asante | Polity Press 2010
In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural philosophers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and widespread celebratory holiday based on his philosophy of Kawaida, he is an activist-scholar committed to a "dignity-affirming" life for all human beings.
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The History of Africa
by Molefi Kete Asante | Routledge, 2007
This book provides a wide ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day. Much African historiography has been about writing Africa for Europe without writing Africa for itself, as itself, from its own perspectives. In this book, the perspectives of Africans take centre stage. It uses the cultural, social, political, and economic lenses of Africa as instruments to illuninate the ordinary lives of Africans.
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The Afrocentric Manifesto
by Molefi Kete Asante | Polity Press, 2008
Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. Asante examines and explores the cultural perspective closest to the existential reality of African people in order to present an innovative interpretation on the modern issues confronting contemporary society. Thus, this book engages the major critiques of Afrocentricity, defends the necessity for African people to view themselves as agents instead of as objects on the fringes of Europe, and proposes a more democratic framework for human relationships.
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Race, Rhetoric & Identity
by Molefi Kete Asante | Humanity Books, 2005
In this new collection of insightful essays, the most prolific contemporary African American intellectual and the leader of the Afrocentric school of thought turns his critical attention to the many ways in which modes of communication in American culture have created a dehumanizing African American identity. Asante examines a wide range of cultural phenomena that continue to reflect underlying racial problems.
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100 Greatest African Americans
by Molefi Kete Asante | Prometheus Books, 2003
Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements and strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African American people.
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Handbook of Black Studies
by Molefi Kete Asante and Dr. Maulana Karenga | Sage Publications, 2006
The HBS is the 1st resource to bring together research and scholarship in the field of Black studies in one volume. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga, along with a pre-eminent group of contributors, examine various aspects of of Black Studies. Organized into 3 parts, HBS explores historical and cultural foundations, philosophical and conceptual bases, and critical and analytical concepts.
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Afrocentricity
by Molefi Kete Asante | Africa World Press, Revised Edition 2003
Discussed in this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of "Afrocentricity," which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects and is driven by the question Is it in the best interest of African people? This book looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and worldview gives Africans a better understanding of how to interpret issues affecting their communities.
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Erasing Racism
by Molefi Kete Asante | Prometheus Books, 2003
In this profound study of America's persistent racial divide, Molefi Kete Asante, a leading scholar of African American history and culture, discusses the festering issue of systemic racism in America. As Asante makes clear, America continues to be a nation of two peoples with very different histories and perspectives.
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Transcultural Realities
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sage Publications, 2001
Transcultural Realities is an important collection of essays written by an outstanding cast of critical scholars who discuss the importance of transculture in interdisciplinary contexts. The primary goal of the contributors is to help the reader to understand that a state of "community" or "harmony" cannot be achieved in the world until we are all ready to accept different cultural forms, norms, and orientations.
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Thunder & Silence
by Molefi Kete Asante and Dhyana Ziegler | Africa World Press, 1992
In this collection, Molefi Kete Asante and Dhyana Ziegler offer a critical appraisal of the history, problems and prospects of African media.
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Encyclopedia of Black Studies
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sage Publications, 2004
The Encyclopedia of Black Studies is the leading reference source for dynamic and innovative research on the Black Experience. The concept for the encyclopedia was developed from the successful Journal of Black Studies (SAGE) and contains a full analysis of the economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues related to Americans of African descent.
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The Painful Demise of Eurocentricism
by Molefi Kete Asante | Africa World Press, 2000
Dr. Asante combines cultural studies, linguistics, historiography, Kemetology, and Africology in this brilliant response to the critics of Afrocentricity. He demonstrates that the principal problem with the critics of Afrocentrics is their disbelief in the agency of Africans--that is the ability of Africans to create society, community, culture and civilization.
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The Book of African Names
by Molefi Kete Asante | Africa World Press, 1991
The growing usage of African names in the United States makes this book appealing for those who want to understand the meaning, proper usage and significance of African names. Asante provides the historical rationale and the proper translations and usage of African names from the four corners of the continent.
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The Afrocentric Idea
by Molefi Kete Asante | Temple University Press; Revised edition, 1998
This new edition of The Afrocentric Idea boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. By rendering a critique of some postmodern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations, this new edition contains lively engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West.
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The African American Atlas
by Molefi Kete Asante | Macmillan Publishing, 1998
The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans has beautiful, full-color graphics interspersed with explanatory text on myriad subjects that are organized chronologically. The authors introduce African-American history by interweaving information about the people and events that influenced our nation's development with maps, charts, reproductions, and photographs.
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Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge
by Molefi Kete Asante | Africa World Press, 1990
Asante's book Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black studies. Like his previous works, this is a profound statement of the Afrocentric perspective.
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African Intellectual Heritage
by Molefi Kete Asante and Abu Abarry (editors) | Temple University Press, 1996
Organized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. This landmark book offers a major contribution to the African canon.
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Scream of Blood: Desettlerism in Southern Africa
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sungai Books, 1998
This book tells the story of the heroes of the liberation movements in the southern part of Africa - the African masses. Asante takes aim at not only the dehumanizing legacy of the racist policy of apartheid, but also what he calls "internalized inferiority" on the part of many African leaders.
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Rhetoric of Black Revolution
by Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith] | Allyn and Bacon
This book is an attempt to discuss the origins, context, strategies, topics, and audience of the rhetoric of Black revolution. The term Black revolution is used in the broad sense of drastic, immediate change in the social, political, or economic structure.
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Mass Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante | Macmillan Publishing, 1998
In this book, Molefi Kete Asante and Mary B. Cassata seek to present theories and practices of mass communication in order to explain how the various media influence different aspects of contemporary society.
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Malcolm X as Cultural Hero & Afrocentric Essays
by Molefi Kete Asante | Africa World Press, 1993
In twenty brilliant and illuminating chapters, Molefi Kete Asante explores major intellectual themes confronting African people. Engaging a wide range of issues, such as gender, African hunger, slavery in Mauritania, lack of historical consciousness, the contest over ancient Egypt, and Malcolm X as cultural hero, he sustains one overarching argument: Africans own deference to no one.
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Love Dances
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sungai Books, 1998
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, in his third volume of poetry, has woven poetry that will add ammunition to his growing contemporary impact. The book is made more valuable by the inclusion of illustrations by the author himself -- illustrations he refers to as "untaught art."
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L'Afrocentricite
by Molefi Kete Asante and Translated by Ama Mazama | Menaibuc, 2005
L’afrocentricité est la philosophie la plus importante qui ait émergé dans la diaspora africaine américaine, depuis la période de la Harlem Renaissance et du Mouvement des Arts Noirs. En effet, ce sont des écoles, des centres communautaires, des centres de recherches, des organisation culturelles tout autant que des assistants sociaux, des théologiens, des chercheurs en science politique, de même que des artistes Hip-hop qui se laissent guider par l’Afrocentricité.
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Handbook of Intercultural Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante, Eileen Newmark, and Cecil A. Blake (editors) | Sage Publications
The Handbook of Intercultural Communication is a state-of-the-art review of theoretical and methodological findings in the field of communication studies. The original essays in teh collection -- contributed by an interdisciplinary assemblage of psychologists, antrhopologists, and communication specialists -- set out ground rules designed to direct research on intercultural communication into a unified field of inquiry.
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Socio-Cultural Conflict Between African and Korean American
by Molefi Kete Asante and Eungjun Min (editors) | University Press of America, 2000
Tragic relations between African Americans and Korean Americans began when the two cultures came together without having a sense of communion or a mutual understanding. This is the first book to base an integrated treatment of the relation between the two cultures.
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Handbook of Int'l and Intercultural Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sage Publications, 2002
This reference book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of business communication professionals interested in international or intercultural business communication. The editors should be congratulated on their achievement in coordinating the work of an outstanding group of leaders in the field.
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Epic In Search of African Kings
by Molefi Kete Asante | New Horizons
The second poetry collection from Dr. Molefi Kete Asante. Poems include "The Eagle Was Loose," "Ths Sun Walked on Me," "Witchcraft," and "A View from Here," all of which were published in Obsidian.
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Egypt VS. Greece
by Molefi Kete Asante | African American Images, 2002
Debating the development of civilization in Egypt and Greece, this collection of essays explores European misconceptions of African history. Featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in African American studies, this book analyzes the inconsistencies erupting from academic and Eurocentric reports on ancient culture.
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Culture and Customs of Egypt
by Molefi Kete Asante | Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002
Modern Egypt blends African history and geography with Arab culture and religion. With its position at the crossroads of Africa, its status as a major Islamic nation, and continuing interest in its ancient monuments, Egypt makes for fascinating study.
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Transracial Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith]| Prentice-Hall
Discussion about the topic of transracial communication, frequently fails to adequately cover concepts of critical importance involving the multifaceted aspects of communication. This book fills that gap. It draws upon pertinent fields affecting human behavior to offer a concise presentation that synthesizes factual information on transracial communication.
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Contemporary Public Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante and Jerry K. Frye | Harper & Row
This book contains a straightforward presentation of public communication. By design we have concentrated on an approach that emphasizes substance as intergral to method. Our fundamental assumption is that technique alone does not and cannot make commendable communcations for contemporary societies.
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Classical Africa
by Molefi Kete Asante | National Press Books, 1994
Long before the Greeks and Romans, six classical African civilizations flourished –; Kemet, Nubia, Axum, Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. Drawing on oral as well as written histories, this important text describes the diverse cultures, languages, and societies of an Africa never before explored from this perspective.
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The Social Uses of Mass Communication
by Molefi Kete Asante and Mary B. Cassata | State University of New York at Buffalo
Professors Cassata and Asante have assembled in this work, manuscripts from a broad range of perspectives in Mass Media. The scholars presented in this work are among the outstanding representatives of their fields. The Social Uses of Mass Communication is of current significance and affects the future conceptualization in an area so important to our daily lives.
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African Culture: The Rhythms of Unity
by Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh | Africa World Press, 1989
Africa, according to the contributors to this anthology, is "one cultural river with numerous tributaries articulated by their specific responses to history and the environment." They concentrate on the similarities in behavior, perceptions, and technologies of African culture that tie those tributaries together.
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The Way
by Molefi Kete Asante | New Horizons
The Way is not contradictory to Hunduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Yoruba, or any other way of peace and power; it is complementary.
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The Voice of Black Rhetoric
by Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith] and Stephen Robb | Allyn and Bacon
The Voice of Black Rhetoric provides a ready source of some of the most notable speeches produced by Black Americans. This collection, spanning more than one hundred and forty years, selects some of the best examples of Black oral rhetoric.
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Scattered to the Wind: An African Historical Saga
by Molefi Kete Asante | Sungai Books
In this, his first novel, Asante presents Africa and her people in grandeur and dignity. It is a historical parable that starts with a prohibition about a Black bull, with icons, metaphors, and embedded meanings for contemporary African lives. The Story's main character, Mzilikazi, was a figure of importance during the 19th century in what is now Zimbabwe.
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African American History: A Journey of Liberation
by Molefi Kete Asante | Peoples Publishing Group; 2nd Edition, 1995
Promoting cultural awareness through richly flavored accounts of the events in African American History, this book encourages its readers to expand their knowledge of the historical foundations from which this country has evolved.
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African American Names and Their Meanings
by Molefi Kete Asante and Renee Muntaqim | Peoples Publishing Group
Name-related projects and research get an inclusive boost from the book African American Names and Their Meanings. The authors gathered names from across the U.S. and discerned their meanings by examining their internal structures in relation to African sounds and derivations.
United States of Africa Symposium
Dakar Summit of African Intellectuals
Dr. Asante attended the Symposium on the United States of Africa in Dakar, Senegal, July 27-30, 2009, where he gave a lecture on the role of ideology in reducing ethnic, class, religious, and other obstacles to a United Africa.
Asante in The Black Candle
Dr. Asante is featured in the new, landmark documentary, The Black Candle, narrated by Maya Angelou. To learn more and to watch the trailer, visit: www.theblackcandle.com