African American Studies category: 2787 books
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....
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Over the course of an African American’s lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual’s unique interactions with his or her environment. Mental Health Care in the African-American Community uses this perspective to provide a deeper analysis of factors and issues affecting...
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...
African American Firsts, 4th Edition
Famous, Little-Known And Unsung Triumphs Of Blacks In America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Updated With The Latest Facts And Photos
"A Black history buff's dream." --Ebony
From ground-breaking achievements to awe-inspiring feats of excellence, this definitive resource reveals over 450 "firsts" by African Americans in fields as diverse as government, entertainment,...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
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...
Groping toward Democracy
African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those...
How Long? How Long?
African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
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,...
Sweet Home Café Cookbook
A Celebration of African American Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café
Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right....
Black Television Travels
African American Media around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A new vocabulary for African American Studies
As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for...
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...