WASHINGTON – This Thursday, as millions celebrate World Book Day with literature of their choosing, Howard University will commemorate the occasion by highlighting faculty who have authored books during the past year.

The list features content published after March 2019 or slated to publish by April 2020, including texts for the general community, scholars, and more. The works published are a representation of Howard faculty’s expertise on specific topics, such as digital communication, immigration, African American life, social science research, politics, non-violent activism, and religion. This list is in alphabetical order by title and submitted by the faculty members of Howard University.

 

"Africa and the Bible: Corrective Lenses -- Critical Essays by Gene Rice"

Published November 2019

By Alice Ogden Bellis, Ph.D., professor of Hebrew Bible

Africa and the Bible is comprise of essays by Gene Rice, the late professor of Old Testament at Howard University School of Divinity of fifty years, on the African presence in and influence on the Hebrew Bible. The essays correct many misinterpretations including the so-called curse of Ham, who the prophet Zephaniah was, whether Amos was racist, and more. It also provides intriguing evidence that the God of the Hebrews may have first been worshiped by Africans. With a foreword by his colleague of many years, Cain Hope Felder, Professor of New Testament at Howard University School of Divinity, now retired, and a preface by Jonathan Rice, Gene Rice’s son, the book is a treasure-trove of carefully researched thought-provoking articles, and a perfect supplement to be used alongside a Hebrew Bible textbook. This book is for the faith community, pastors, scholars, the general public, the African-American community. 

 

"Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics, & Everyday Challenges"

By Chuka Onwumechili, Ph.D., professor of communications

Published November 2019

Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international migration. In exploring the intranational, the book is written in two parts. The first is a general focus on the continent, and the second is an examination of country cases. The general focus of the book is on the nature of elite tier leagues, the relationship between politics and football, the media, youth academies, intranational migration and fans. This book's audience includes scholars and practitioners in the areas of sports sociology, communication, and history.

 

 

"American While Black: African Americans, Immigration and the Limits of Citizenship"

Published August 2019

By Niambi Michele Carter, Ph.D., professor of political science

This book is a study of African American public opinion of immigration. With a mixed-method approach this work explores Black engagement with immigration historically, and in the present. This book is for undergraduate and graduate students and general audiences.

 

 

"Campus Uprisings: How Student Activists and Collegiate Leaders Resist"

Publishing April 2020

By Kmt G. Shockley, Ph.D., associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies; Ivory Toldson, professor of psychology counseling, and Ty-Ron Douglas, professor at University of Missouri

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that "White supremacist groups are targeting college campuses like never before," while the appearance of nooses, swastikas, and racial epithets are increasing across the United States. This timely volume presents a wide range of perspectives to offer readers practical steps and policy options for creating campus structures that are fair and inclusive to students of all races and social statuses. It features chapters from a university president, department chair, a campus chaplain, cultural center directors, faculty, and students--including voices from the University of Missouri and Howard University during their recent series of protests. Campus Uprisings demonstrates the power and value of principled non-violent activism to provoke change and provides thoughtful strategies to help universities manage conflict and racial tension. This book is for university faculty, staff, students, administrators, collegiate leaders, student groups, parents, and social and community activists.

"Digital Communications at Cross Roads in Africa: A Decolonial Approach"

Publishing April 2020

By Kehbuma Langmia, Ph.D., professor and chair of communications; Chuka Onwumechili, Ph.D., professor of communications, Agnes Lucy Lando, professor at Daystar University, and students Shamila Amulega, Abdul Bangura, Bala Musa, Mohammed Camara, Kajsa Adu and M’Bawine Atintande

This book examines western digital communication systems including social media that have gripped the communication landscape of Africa and Africans. The often cherished African in-person, communal and rich cultural forms of communications have been abandoned or "sandwiched" and the future of communications in Africa is uncertain because it is assimilating the western forms. As a result, the future generations of Africans born on the continent and abroad may never recognize and appreciate African systems of communications. This book is perfect for undergraduate and graduate students.

"Empowering Clinical Social Work Practice in a Time of Global Economic Distress"

Published October 2019 

By Janice Edwards, Ph.D., LICSW, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD, professor of social work

Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival. During these challenging economic times, social workers have an opportunity to empower those at risk. Starting with a discussion of poverty and relevant global social policies, the book explores how economic distress exacerbates already stressful situations, and how those challenges surface in clinical practice. The ensuing chapters examine poverty and its impact on children and adolescents, older adults, adults with disabilities, veterans, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups. Financial insecurity is viewed through the lens of everyday clinical practice and how it interacts with trauma, attachment theory, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. Rather than emphasizing deficits, chapter authors advocate for a strengths-based perspective, focusing on the positive aspects of the client’s life, such as their values, skills, talents, hopes, resiliencies, and community. This book is for practitioners and scholars.

"The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century"

Published February 2020

By Keneshia Grant, Ph.D., professor of political science

The Great Migration and the Democratic Party frames the Great Migration as an important economic and social event that also had serious political consequences. Grant created one of the first listings of Black elected officials that classifies them based on their status as participants in the Great Migration. She also describes some of the policy/political concerns of the migrants. The Great Migration and the Democratic Party lays the groundwork for ways of thinking about the contemporary impact of Black migration on American politics. This book is good for faculty, the general public, scholars and more.

 

 

"T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology"

Published July 2019

By Frederick L. Ware, Ph.D., associate professor of theology and associate dean for academic affairs; Antonia Michelle Daymond, scholar; and Eric Lewis Williams, curator of religion at Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture

This handbook explores the central theme of Christian faith from various disciplinary approaches and different contexts of black experience in the United States. The central unifying theme is freedom; an important concept both in American culture and Christianity. African American theology represents a Christian understanding of God's freedom and the good news of God's call for all humankind to enter life-true human identity and moral responsibility-in genuine and just community. Contributors to the volume argue that African American theology highlights how racism and other intersecting forms of oppression complicate the human predicament; and that their eradication requires an expansion of salvation to include the liberation of persons who lack full participation in society and enjoyment of the good (and goods) made possible by that society. The essays in this handbook employ the tools of biblical criticism, history, cultural and social analysis, religious studies, philosophy, and systematic theology, in order to explore and assess the nature and impact of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, immigration, and cultural and moral pluralism in America-as well as the intersections between African American and African diasporan religious thought and life. This book is for the faith community, pastors, scholars, the general public, the African-American community.

"Using Statistical Methods"

Published March 2019

By Soleman Abu-Bader, M.S.W., Ph.D., professor of social work and chair of the research sequence

In Using Statistical Methods, Soleman Abu-Bader detects and addresses the gaps between the research and data analysis of the classroom environment and the practitioner's office. With focus on the purpose, rationale, and assumptions made by each statistical test, and a plethora of research examples that clearly display their applicability and function in real-world practice, Professor Abu-Bader creates a step-by-step description of the process needed to clearly organize, choose a test or statistical technique, analyze, interpret, and report research findings. This book not only guides social scientists through different tests, but also provides students and researchers alike with information that will help them in their own practice. The book is also available in Arabic at Doha Institute 

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