African American Studies category: 2787 books
Wounds of the Spirit
Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters...
African American Women with Incarcerated Mates
The Psychological and Social Impacts of Mass Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
After four decades of mass incarceration in the U.S., the disproportionate number of black men in prisons has contributed to an epidemic of black women struggling to support fragile families. Yet the literature is scant on how African American women are affected by the imprisonment of their partners....
Making Black History
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey...
Talking at Trena's
Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general....
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
A collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short...
by David Vassar Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota's population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present. Author David Taylor chronicles the rich history of Blacks in the state through...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
And Still I Rise
Black America Since MLK
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White...
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass’s memoir of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental...
The Freedom Schools
Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates,...
African American Doctors of World War I
The Lives of 104 Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
Standing In the Shadows
Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A first-of-its-kind exploration of black men and depression from an award-winning journalist
The first book to reveal the depths of black men’s buried mental and emotional pain, Standing in the Shadows weaves the author’s story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression with a cultural...