African American Studies category: 2787 books
African American Community Practice Models
Historical and Contemporary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can “see” and “learn” when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change. This text celebrates African American experiences and challenges you to understand the black experience from the...
Parodies of Ownership
Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."
---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
"Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish...
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...
The African American Child, Second Edition
Development and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Praise for the First Edition:
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable...
The Socialization of the African American Child:
In Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
The main objective of this book is to afford readers a comprehensive view of the current state of the African American experience from the perspective of a child and youth. Oftentimes, members within and outside the African American community fail to objectively critique this culture. The worst of...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African...
Style and Status
Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status:...
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,...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Carter G. Woodson's classic text on the emergence of African American churches, chronicling their story out of the eighteenth-century evangelical revivals and their transformations through the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is important for reasons other than "black church" history. With...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces the canon of African American women's fiction and autobiography during the...
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...