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MANNISH WATER: An Anthology of Social, Political and Cultural Essays by Black, Scholarly Men in 21st-Century America-Reflections on their Lives and their World

EDITED BY CARLTON LONG and OLUFEMI VAUGHAN
WITH A FOREWORD BY PENIEL E. JOSEPH
(Award-Winning Author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.) AND AN AFTERWORD BY YOHURU WILLIAMS (Distinguished University Professor of History, University of St. Thomas)

In this rare collection of new and previously unpublished essays, this non-fiction anthology allows Black, scholarly men as ＂Black men＂ to reveal their sacrifices, power and achievements through great attention to detail -- their flesh and their
bone revealed through the profound and important telling of their personal journeys.

Those familiar with the Caribbean in general, and with Jamaica in particular, will recognize that ＂Mannish Water＂ is the name given to a particular dish known synonymously as ＂Goat Head Soup＂. It is flesh and bone. It is sacrifice. And it is power prepared with care, with great attention to detail, and served up to make us strong.

FEATURING
Darryl W. Aaron, Lazarus Louis Baptiste, Daniel Black, Taroue W. Brooks, Askia Davis, Jaime ＂Shaggy＂ Flores, Hank Grimes, James Henry Harris, Thomas M. Jackson, Norm Jones, Peniel Joseph, Carlton Long, Jason
Scott Manuel, Tony Medina, Oral Moses, Hugh Price, Rodney J. Reynolds, Austin L. Scott, F. Keith Slaughter, Vernon G. Smith, Shannon Travis, Olufemi Vaughan, Cecil Williams, and Yohuru Williams.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

CARLTON LONG is a former Rhodes Scholar, Chamberlain Fellow, and international consultant who has been a leader in higher education for decades. He has partnered with many institutions, including public, private, land-grant, HBCU, and Ivy League schools. Dr. Long was trained in practical theology at the Morehouse School of Religion, and in political science at DePauw University, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford.

OLUFEMI VAUGHAN is the Alfred Sargent Lee ’41 & Mary Ames Lee Professor and Chair of Black Studies at Amherst College. His research, writing, and teaching foci include African political and social history, African politics, and African diaspora studies. Professor Vaughan is the author of four books, over eighty scholarly articles and reviews, and the editor/co-editor of eleven volumes. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, he received his PhD in politics from Oxford University in 1989.