African American category: 7736 books
African American Women in the News
Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
Representing the Race
A New Political History of African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop...
Whispered Consolations
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American...
African American Foreign Correspondents
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In Human Behavior in the Social Environment from an African American Perspective, leading black scholars come together to discuss complex human behavior problems faced by African Americans and to force the abandonment of conceptualization theories made without consideration of the Black experience....
African American Officers in Liberia
A Pestiferous Rotation, 1910–1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties...
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind:...
Blue Eyes on African-American History
A Learning Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Until Bayard Rustins lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation, which sponsors a pledge calling for liberty and justice for all.
The...
Archives of Flesh
African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Lean'tin Bracks, Linda T Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Celebrate the Achievements . . .The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History chronicles 400 years of African American history. This comprehensive resource explores the past, the progress, and the present of African Americans in four volumes, each building, complementing, and expanding on the...
Afro Asia
Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism,...