African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society...
Yes, I Am Your Brother
Understanding the Indigenous African American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Muslims and African Americans are the two most misunderstood groups in America today, yet both groups have been a part of American life from its beginning. Today, it is the African American that most represents the aspirations of both groups. They are a new peoplea people who have overcome a history...
Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as...
Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section
2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young...
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families. Complete with numerous exercises,...
Frankie and Johnny
Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of "Frankie and Johnny" became one of America's most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie...
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women
African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950–1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950–1975 challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women who joined the Original Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights-Black Power...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W.E.B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic...
by Turry Flucker, Phoenix Savage
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of �Founding Fathers� just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Americans. In spite of their subjugated role as slaves, African Americans of Louisiana, and subsequently New Orleans, were contributors to the success of...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
Untold Glory
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier,...
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied...
The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....
Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson
A Diary, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with...