African American category: 7736 books
The Dark Before Dawn
From Civil Wrongs to Civil Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
As an African American child growing up in St. Augustine, Florida, author Gerald Eubanks had a hard time seeing the victories won during the Civil War in action. Blacks were excluded from opportunities afforded to his white neighbors. Schools were aggressively segregated. Racial tensions simmered....
Specters of Democracy
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality),...
by Marita Golden
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own faily's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden discovered she was also...
Black Child to Black Woman
An African-American Woman Coming-of-Age Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
"If you are looking for a true, gritty story about life in it's rawest form, then Black Child to Black Woman... will fit the bill." —Readers Favorite
When twenty-four-year old Tara Walker goes home for her brother's funeral, she discovers the secret journal she started when she...
by Ralph Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."
-- Washington Post Book World
The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive...
Democracy in Black
How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
Winning the Race
Beyond the Crisis in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.
Winning the Race examines the roots of...
Mysticism and Social Action
Lawrence Lecture and Discussions with Dr Howard Thurman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
With a foreword by Dr Howard Thurman's biographer Dr Luther E. Smith Jr this book contains the only surviving text of the Lawrence Lectures given by Dr Thurman at California's Berkeley Unitarian Church in 1978. As such, it is a unique record of the thinking of one of America's most celebrated African-American...
by Alexandra Pierce, Mimi Mondal
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour.
Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships,...
by Anna Julia Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1988
Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age...
Schooling the Freed People
Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative...
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
**The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their history, dignity, and...
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...