Books by Dr. Clarke

Dr. Clarke


Buy it now! African People in World History

by John Henrik Clarke
Price: $8.95 - Paperback

Dr. John Henrik Clarke’s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series. This series is devoted to the publication of views expressed by leading contemporary thinkers and essayists. Dr. Clarke qualifies as both. He is Professor Emeritus of African World History at Hunter College. As a historian, educator, and author, he has dedicated his life to uncovering the identity and place of African people in world history.

Buy it now!

Malcolm X: The Man and His Times

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
List Price: $18.95 - Paperback

Book Description
The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and his mission come urgently to life in this definitive anthology of his writings, speeches and manifestos along with writings about him by an international group of African and African American scholars and activists.

Buy it now!

The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression

by Michael Bradley, John Henrik Clarke
List Price: $15.95 - Paperback

Book Description
Michael Bradley delves back into our glacial past during the last Ice Age in order to find the prehistoric sources of the white race's aggression, racism and sexism.

Buy it now!

World's Great Men of Color

by J. A. Rogers, John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
Price: $15.00 - Paperback

World's Great Men of Color is a comprehensive account of the great Black personalities in world history. J. A. Rogers was one of the first Black scholars to devote most of his life to researching the lives of hundreds of men and women of color. This first volume is a convenient reference; equipped with a comprehensive introduction, it treats all aspects of recorded Black history. J. A. Rogers's book is vital reading for everyone who wants a fuller and broader understanding of the great personalities who have shaped our world.

Buy it now!

The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo

by Tom Feelings, Dr. John Henrik Clarke (Introduction)
Price: $75.00 - Hardback - Dial (November 1995)

Editorial Review
In his introduction, Feelings, known best for his children's book celebrating African creativity, Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993), explains why he chose to create this picture book for adults about the Middle Passage, the horrific transatlantic journey that brought enslaved Africans to the land of their imprisonment.

Buy it now!

Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
Price: $16.00 - Paperback

Editorial Review
A new introduction complements this classic collection of stories by African Americans that features pieces by Charles W. Chestnut, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and others.

Buy it now!

William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond

by John Henrik Clarke (Author)
List Price: $59.95 - Library Binding - Greenwood Publishing Group; (July 1987)

 

The Early Years

by John Henrik Clarke, Barbara Eleanor Adams
From $30.00 - Paperback - United Brothers & Sisters; (1992)

Customer Review
This book really enlightened me. It gives a lot of information about a very important man who was a great historian, among many other things. I had heard so much about Dr. J. H. Clarke but knew nothing about his personal life before reading this book.


Critical Lessons in Slavery & the Slavetrade: Essential Studies & Commentaries on Slavery, in General, & the African Slavetrade, in Particular

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
From $13.58 - Paperback - Native Sun Pub; 2nd edition (October 1996)


Buy it now!

Harlem Voices from the Soul of Black America

by John Henrik Clarke
Price: $8.76 - Paperback - A & B Book Pub Dist; 2nd edition (September 1993)

Book Description
This is a unique and superb collection of tales by America's foremost black writers recapturing the essence of Harlem and its people


Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

by John Henrik Clarke
List Price: $10.95 - Paperback - A & B Book Pub Dist; (August 2002)

 

Harlem U.S.A.

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
List Price: $11.95 - Paperback - A & B Book Pub Dist; (September 1993)

 


Buy it now!

New Dimensions in African History

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
Price: $11.87 - Paperback - Africa World Press; (April 1991)

Book Description
The London lectures of Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan were delivered for the Minority Ethnic Unit of the Greater London Council in 1986. Since then there has been a great demand for these lectures, which were recorded along with an extensive question and answer period.

 


Rebellion in Rhyme the Early Poetry of John Henrik Clarke

by John Henrik Clarke
List Price: $9.95 - Paperback - Africa World Press; (January 1991)

 


Buy it now!

Africans at the Crossroad: Notes on an African World Revolution

by John Henrik Clarke
From $29.94 - Paperback - Africa World Press; (April 1992)

Book Description
Africans at the Crossroads is a collection of essays that have been broadly amassed in five thematic sections. Clarke begins with the roots of the African and African-American freedom struggle in the African world.



Buy it now!

My Life in Search of Africa

by John Henrik Clarke
Price: $13.95 - Paperback

Customer Review
"...it is an important book to read. History has typically been approached from a European (white) perspective, and it is essential that we get beyond that approach, that we learn more of the rest of the world, and that we learn from and about the people enabling that knowledge."


Buy it now!

Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa

by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)
From $4.80 - Paperback - Knopf; (May 1974)

Book Description
Among Black leaders, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was unique. His popularity was universal, his program for the return of African people to their motherland shook the foundations of three empires, all subsequent Black Power movements have owed a debt to his example, and his prophecy has been fulfilled in the independence that brought into being more than thirty African nations.

 


Home ] Up ] [ Books by Dr. Clarke ] Lectures by Dr. Clarke ] Excerpts From Lectures ] John Henrik Clarke 20th Century Griot ] Dr. Clarke Passes ] John Henrik Clarke ] A Short Bio ] Ancestral Shield ] Biographical Information and Selected Writings ] Bibliography ]