African American category: 7736 books
The Works of James M. Whitfield
America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.
Whitfield's...
A Fatherless Child
Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.
A...
by Nancy Jane Copney
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 1999
Preston County, an area nestled in the northern corner of West Virginia, is bounded on the north byPennsylvania and the Mason-Dixon line and on the eastby the state of Maryland. This scenic Appalachian region is primarily a farming community, though mining, timber, recreation, and tourism have also been...
The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture
Beneath the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more panoramic picture of African American expressivity within hip-hop.
by Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on how...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
by Johnny E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues...
by Devorah Heitner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative...
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour
William Brown's African and American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded...
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel?
The Truth and Other Insights About the African American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel challenges a long-held belief that has permeated the African American community that suggests that Blacks, generally, are not supportive of each other. Author and educator, Rodney D. Smith, tenaciously confronts the age-old myth that African Americans stand in the...
African American Hospitals in North Carolina
39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. With little money, scant opportunities for professional education and few white allies, African American physicians, nurses and other community leaders...
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018)
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on...
Documenting the Black Experience
Essays on African American History, Culture and Identity in Nonfiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the murder of four black girls by the Ku Klux Klan in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. Such...