African American Studies category: 2787 books

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A White-Collar Profession

African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921

by Theresa A. Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003

Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to...
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Peekskill's African American History

A Hudson Valley Community's Untold Story

by John J. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008

The first African Americans of Peekskill had no choice in making the Hudson Valley their home. What they did choose was what kind of home to make of it�choices that were to shape both their community and the course of American history. Meet the African American sharpshooterwho helped swing the balance...
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Liberation Memories

The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens

by Keith Gilyard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003

No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual father...
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In My Father's House

Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1993

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst...
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Rising Wind

Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960

by Brenda Gayle Plummer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black...
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Disintegrating the Musical

Black Performance and American Musical Film

by Arthur Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002

From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts,...
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Out of Sight

The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895

by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009

A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines musical personalities, issues, and events in context. It confronts the inescapable marketplace concessions...
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African American Army Officers of World War I

A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond

by Adam P. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson’s request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” Two months later 1,250 African American men—college graduates, businessmen,...
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Segregated Soldiers

Military Training at Historically Black Colleges in the Jim Crow South

by Marcus S. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

In Segregated Soldiers, Marcus S. Cox investigates military training programs at historically black colleges and universities, and demonstrates their importance to the struggle for civil rights. Examining African Americans' attitudes toward service in the armed forces, Cox focuses on the ways in which...
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Black Muslims and the Law

Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali

by Malachi D. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties as what might arguably be called the inaugural and first sustained challenge to the suppression of religious freedom in African American legal history. Borrowing...
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African Americans and Mass Media

A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership

by Richard T. Craig
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014

In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing media monopolies and...
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by Glenn L. Starks
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Provides an invaluable source for students as well as academics on the current condition of African Americans, highlighting disparities throughout an array of social, economic, and political areas. • Clearly outlines the condition of African Americans in relation to other races and ethnic...
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Race and Renaissance

African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II

by Joe W. Trotter, Jared N. Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s,...
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by Dr. Daniel Leighton Hollar
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

This book examines the relationship between culture and psychopathology to determine if proposed psychological risk factors ( low ethnic identification and high level of acculturative stress) are predictive of several key mental health variables related to suicide and eating disorder behaviors (depression,...
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