African American Studies category: 2787 books
African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke
Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives...
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's...
The African American Encounter with Japan and China
Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries,...
Jennie Carter
A Black Journalist of the Early West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator-one of the nation\'s premier black weekly newspapers during Reconstruction-began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself \"Ann J. Trask\" and later \"Semper Fidelis.\" Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881), and the Elevator...
Killing African Americans
Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized...
Becoming African in America
Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading...
Against the Closet
Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of erotic transgression to contest...
Black Elephants in the Room
The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party?
Black...
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet...
My Brown Baby
On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective” -*Ebony*
For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically...
African Americans and Standardized Tests
The Real Reason for Low Test Scores
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
With a surprisingly honest and hard-hitting approach, this scathing indictment of the modern black family postulates that a lack of appreciation for literacy in the African American household is the true cause of low scores on today's standardized tests. Arguing that television, video games, rap...
Stolen Women
Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"STOLEN WOMEN gives us what Mama couldn't--a way to be in charge of our own bodies. This probing, fact-based book dissects the myths, discards the stereotypes, and unshackles our minds."--BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL Author of Brothers and Sisters
"The culmination of twenty-two years of clinical practice...
by Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Charles E. Allen Jr., Toya Conston
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore...
African American Women's Life Issues Today: Vital Health and Social Matters
Vital Health and Social Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
After decades of research devoted to women's health, a federal agency focused on women's health, and millions of dollars allocated to address women's health disparities, African American women are still the sickest American citizens. This book examines why.