African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Art of Richard Mayhew
A Critical Analysis with Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden’s group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated...
Three African-American Classics
Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
This essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the struggle for equality, and the impassioned rise from bondage to international recognition, each landmark book...
African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865
Slavery, Freedom and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New Orleans to set up a fur trading fort on the Mississippi. Within a few decades, the fort had become a prosperous commercial center whose proximity to the western...
Lakeland
African Americans in College Park
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Lakeland, the historical African American community of College Park, was formed around 1890 on the doorstep of the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, in northern Prince George�s County. Located less than 10 miles from Washington, D.C., the community began when the area was...
by Melba J. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Although the first black slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, our knowledge of African American history is often limited to 'lessons' in films.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to African American History reveals a full portrait of black life, including familiar figures such as Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois, and Martin Luther King, JR.
by Lionel C. Bascom
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Focusing on the contributions of civic reformers and political architects who arrived in New York in the early decades of the 20th century, this book explores the wide array of sweeping social reforms and radical racial demands first conceived of and planned in Harlem that transformed African Americans...
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always...
The Black Bruins
The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four‑star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball...
The White Image in the Black Mind
African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American...
Striving for Perfection
Developing Professional Black Officers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The success of todays military officers rests squarely on the shoulders of the men and women of the past. In Striving for Perfection, author Gerald D. Curry, a former US Airforce Colonel, reaches back through the annals of history to help todays professional military officers navigate a successful...
"Who Set You Flowin'?"
The African-American Migration Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American...
Pictures and Progress
Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought...
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...