Books with author Nagueyalti Warren

More than any other scholar, political activist or professor of his day, W.E.B. Du Bois established the intellectual and curricular groundwork for what would become the field of Black Studies in higher education in the United States. Beginning with his social study, The Philadelphia Negro, in 1898, Du Bois challenged the status quo regarding knowledge about the black experience in the United States. With the Department of Labor and the Atlanta University reports he documented the facts of black life. This book delineates the undaunted effort that Du Bois exerted in order to educate black people about themselves and to rectify the misconceptions of whites. The Great Depression, Du Bois believed, had exacerbated racial consciousness. He planned to remedy the situation of worsened race relations with a serious program of Black Studies. His plan was presented to the Annual Conference of the Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges in 1941, but it would be more than twenty five years before the first Black Studies program would appear in American higher education and it would not be at a black institution. This book examines in depth Du Bois s contributions as well as chronicles the turbulent journey of Black Studies in the academy. As Black Studies moves into its fortieth year, Dr. Warren's work reminds and introduces how connected the goals and curriculum of Black Studies is related to the works of W.E.B. DuBois. Most significant is the chapter which highlights the work DuBois did on Black women. "As an advocate for gender justice," DuBois also laid the foundation for what is now known as Black Women's Studies. Dr. LaVerne Gyant , Director, Center for Black Studies , Northern Illinois University This is the first book length study to adequately capture the evolution of Black Studies s genealogy in the early work of Du Bois, which Warren delineates in a fine way. Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies, Spelman College

Temba Tupu! is a one-of-a-kind anthology brimming with a cross-section of poetic styles that represent the creative genius of Africana women from the beginning of written records. Included are selections from Queen Hatshepsut, Makeda, Queen of Sheba, Sojourner Truth, Gladys Casely Hayford, Una Marson, matriarch of Jamaican women s poetry, and Noemia Da Sousa, a revolutionary poet from southern Africa, as well as poems from contemporary poets like the former United States Poet Laureate, Rita Dove, popular people s poet, Nikki Giovanni, Ghanaian poet and dramatist, Ama Ata Aidoo, Trinidadian poet, Grace Nichols, Nigerian poet, Taiwo Olaleye-Ornene, and Brazilian poet and scholar, Miriam Alves. The poems assembled in this anthology center on Black women s consciousness: self definitions, their questions regarding the complexities and contradictions of race and gender, their spiritual and inner lives, and their search for Truth. Many of these poets write to subvert and deconstruct the wicked popular representations of themselves by others. Some of the poems are overtly political while others are not. Some poets use formal prosody, while others do not. However, they all reveal the poets philosophy and the common issues that connect Africana women throughout the Diaspora. Temba Tupu!: The Africana Woman s Poetic Self-Portrait is voluptuous, politically sassy, celebratory, and fearlessly revealing in its truth-telling as its contributors allow their poems to walk naked among us. Using a gynocentric pan-African angle of vision brilliantly, Nagueyalti Warren has gathered in a single volume the writing of more than three hundred Africana women poets from every corner of the Diaspora and has organized their poems in a way that reflects their rites of passage from girlhood to womanhood, the relationships that test and temper their identity, and the women who have inspired them along their journey. Temba Tupu! will be a treasured collection of Africana women s poetry for years to come. --Joanne V. Gabbin, Director, Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University (VA)