African American Studies category: 2787 books
A Voice from the South
By a Black Woman of the South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent...
A Dream Foreclosed
Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Told through the eyes of four homeowners-a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a man in Chattanooga, and a mother in Chicago-A Dream Foreclosed presents a people’s history of the U.S. financial crisis and the rise of a people’s movement for economic justice, dignity,...
by Martin Kilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.
Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out...
Tales of Conjure and The Color Line
10 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" — vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular — and later with his "stories of the color line,"...
African American Heritage Anthology #1
Ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right....
To Make a New Race
Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of Greek-born mystic G. I. Gurdjieff on the thinking of...
Migrating the Black Body
The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media�from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels�has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the...
Idlewild
The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...
Civil Rights and Beyond
African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups...
SoulStirrers
Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ancestral impulse. The Neo-Ancestral impulse emerges as an extension of the Harlem Renaissance, the Negritude Movement, and the Black Arts Movement, all of...
The Dance of Freedom
Texas African Americans during Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau...
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished...
Invisible Hawkeyes
African Americans at the University of Iowa during the Long Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Between the 1930s and 1960s, the University of Iowa sought to assert its modernity, cosmopolitanism, and progressivism through an increased emphasis on the fine and performing arts and athletics. This enhancement coincided with a period when an increasing number of African American students arrived...