Bøger af Erica L. Ball

"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review - Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. This biography places this remarkable and large...

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.

Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker's times.

Aims to revitalize African diaspora studies. This book covers the understandings of African and diaspora as a dispersal of Africans from African continent via the Atlantic slave trade and offer re-conceptualizations of dominant paradigms, such as home, origins, migrations, politics, blackness, African, Africa, African-descended, and Americanness.