1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History
The Hero with an African Face
(Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1996)
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
M y th ic W isdom o f T ra d itio n a l A fric a
(Bantam Books, January, 1999)
By Clyde W. Ford
Clyde W. Ford, author o f THE HERO WITH
AN AFRICAN FACE, has a unique and varied
background: He is a doctor o f chiropractic medi­
cine, a trained psychotherapist, and a professor who
has taught Swahili at Columbia University and Af­
rican American History at Western Washington
University. As a chiropractor and therapist, Ford
had been trained to recognize the need for healing.
As an African American and scholar, Ford per­
sonally felt the need to heal the long standing pain
;ind trauma in the African American community -
a legacy o f its tumultuous history. “I knew that a
turning point in the individual healing process of­
ten came when the ‘personal stories’ o f trauma
shifted from litanies o f victimization to legends of
empowerment, and I felt that something similar
must be true about social healing, though it was
harder to grasp what those ‘social stories’ might
be,” says Ford. His research led him to travel to
Africa, where he found a society rich in spiritual
and cultural tradition, all o f which can be found in
the healing stories o f African myths.
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1001 Things E veryone Sh o u ld K now A b o u t A frican A m erican H istory presents the only com ­
prehensive, authoritative, and engaging account o f the m ost significant events, individuals, term s,
ideas, and social m ovem ents that m ake up the dazzling canvas o f A frican A m erican history - all
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The Hairstons
An American Family in Black and White
(St. Martin’s Press, 1999)
By Henry Wiencek
T he H airsto n s is the ex trao rd in ary little-
know n story o f one o f th e largest fam ilies in
A m e ric a, th e H a irsto n clan. W ith se v era l
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Here is a fact‘filled
o f A frican A m erican history, from Scottsboro to
C ongo Square, from the Exodusters to the Edison
Pioneers. So i f you want to know w ho invented the
gas m ask (869), or dom inated college lacrosse in the
m id-1950s (986), or becam e the first B lack cow boy
to w rite his ow n autobiography ( 151 ), o r even who
invented the disc jockey technique o f “ scratching
(826), y o u ’re sure to find it in 1001 Things Every­
one Should K now A bout African A m erican History.
Beyond the American Dream
One of Top Three books of 1998
(Autodidactic Press, 1998)
By Charles Hayes
th o u s a n d b la c k a n d w h ite m e m b e rs , th e
‘ H airstons sh are a co m p lex and co m p ellin g
h istory. A s to ld in th is d y n a m ic b o o k by
H enry W iencek, th eir story serves as a key
fo r A m e ric an s to u n d e rsta n d , and to help
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undo, the hau n tin g dam ag e o f th e past.
For seven years, H enry W iencek, a jo u rn a l­
ist, criss-crossed the old plantation country, lis­
tening to the sto ries o f d e sce n d e n ts o f the
H airston clan. In T he H airstons, W iencek e x ­
plores the relationship o f these tw o fam ilies
who share a com m on nam e and a com m on his­
tory - in so doing, he explores the legacy o f
slavery. T hat legacy is painful and full o f ques­
tions and am biguities. O n the surface, the tw o
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fam ilies seem ed to have com e to an accom ­
m odation about their shared past in slavery,
but the truth turns out to be far m ore com plex
than the appearance. B oth fam ilies suspected that som etim e long ago they had a shared bond of
blood ties, but the link had been lost. W iencek recovers the lost history o f these fam ilies.
Dirty Little Secrets
About Black History, Its Heroes, And Other Troublemakers
l ifelong Learning and ihe Search
for .Meaning in a Pncimodeiit Murid
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T he book is about c reatin g a b e tte r life and a b e tte r
so ciety th rough a b e tte r u n d erstan d in g o f both. It c h a l­
lenges read ers to b reak th rough the p erceptual b a rriers
o f p o p u lar culture and n ew -age d o ctrin es in search o f
the m eaning o f m eaning itself. We affirm the qu ality o f
our e x isten ce th rough ideas. R eal p o v erty com es from
se ttlin g for dream s defined by others w h ile rem ain in g
b ereft o f ou r ow n. B eyond the A m erican D ream m akes
cle a r th at A m e ric a ’s g reatest treasures are found not in
ou r sh o p p in g m alls but in o u r libraries.
Ninth Annual Cascade
Festival of African
Films Shines at PCC
All films are free and open to the public,
thanks to ou r many community supporters!
(PowerNomics Corporation, 1997)
By Claud Anderson
To d ate, h isto ry re m a in s larg e ly w h ite history. B lack peo p le, as a race, are v irtu a lly n o n ­
e x iste n t w hen h isto ric a l e v e n ts are d e scrib ed in tex tb o o k s, m o v ie s and ce n te n n ia l c e le b ra ­
tions. T h e ir ro le in A m e ric a is m o st o ften th at o f co tto n p ick ers, m arch ers o r rio te rs. B lack
H istory M onth narrow ly lim its c o n ­
trib u tio n s o f b lack s to a fam iliar list
to 10 to 15 individuals w hen in fact,
b lac k s, th o u g h e n slav ed and p o w ­
erless, had a profound and ind elib le
in flu e n ce on the A m erican s o c io ­
Opening night film at McMenamins Kennedy School
Kini and Adams. Burkina Faso/Zimbabwe, Feb. 4,7 and 9 p.m.
eco n o m ic system . B lack lab o r w as
th e e n g in e th a t d ro v e th is n a tio n
c o n tin u e to reveal this n a tio n ’s c u l­
Taafe Fanga, Mali, Feb. 11,12 p.m., and Feb. 12,7:30 p.m.
Tableau Ferraille, Senegal, Feb. 11, 1:30 p.m.and Feb. 13,7.30 p.m.
A ristotle's Plot, Cameroon/Zimbabwe, Feb. 18, 12 p.m. and Feb. 19,7:30 p.m.
tu ral, m oral and eth ical hypocrisy.
Faraw! M o th e r of th e Dunes, Mali, Feb. 18, 1:30 p.m. and Feb. 20,7:30 p.m.
T h e p ro d u cts o f b la c k ’s lab o r c re ­
T h e Land (A l-A rd ), Egypt, Feb. 25, 12 p.m. and Feb. 26,7:30 p.m.
ated in d u strial rev o lu tio n s in B rit­
ain and A m erica. T h ey p ro d u ce d
M o rtu Nega, Guinea-Bissau, Feb. 25,2 p.m. and Feb. 27,7:30 p.m.
Oggun:An Eternal Presence, Cuba, March 4,12 p.m. and March 5,7:30 p.m.
social tensions that led to the R ev o ­
Everyone's Child. Zimbabwe, March 4, I p.m. and March 6.7:30 p.m.
and c iv iliz a tio n s aro u n d the w orld.
SECRETS
About Black History, Its Heroes,
And Other Troublemakers
S lavery and its leg acies shaped and
lu tio n ary W ar, C ivil W ar, R e c o n ­
stru c tio n and a n a tio n a l civil rig h ts
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Other Films at the PCC Cascade Campus, Terrell Hall 122
m ovem ent.
M uch in fo rm a tio n a b o u t rac e r e ­
Saturday Fam ily Film Day: Picc Mi (Little Bird), Senegal,
Fary, L'Anesse (Fary.the Donkey), Senegal,
and My Dinner w ith the Devil Snake, U.S.A.. Feb. 20,2 p.m.
m ain s lost o r b u rie d in law s, bills
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o f sales, n ew sp ap er rep o rts, letters,
e c o n o m ic a n a ly s is, a n d p e rso n a l
diaries. T h e p u rp o se o f th is book
is to u n earth and ex p o se so m e o f
the ‘D irty L ittle S e c re ts ’ h id d en in
C la u d A n d e r s o n , E d .D .
the d a rk n e ss o f history.
Celebrate
Black H istory
M onth w ith
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