African American Studies category: 2787 books
On the Real Side
A History of African American Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos ’n’ Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans...
Middle Passages
African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans...
Witness for Freedom
African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories...
Freedom Flyers:The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German...
Black Faces of War
A Legacy of Honor from the American Revolution to Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This commemoration of African-Americans in the U.S. military includes contributions from W. Stephen Morris and Luther H. Smith, one of the most-celebrated Tuskegee Airmen. Other black military heroes featured in the book include Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Revolutionary War; Lt. James...
by Kathryn Smith-McGlynn, Cecilia Gutierrez Venable, Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
El Paso�s African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de O�ate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African American community...
Fire on the Beach
Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THIS IS THE TRUE-LIFE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL COAST GUARD AND ONE CREW OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEROES WHO FOUGHT STORMS AND SAVED LIVES OFF NORTH CAROLINA'S OUTER BANKS.
Fire on the Beach recovers a lost gem of American history. It tells the story of...
The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and...
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness
Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America...
by Velma Howell Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Early African Americans in Sumner County, both slaves and free, left a legacy not only of beautiful brick buildings and sturdy stone fences, but also a social history as rich and varied as the many tribes they represented. This exciting book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the immeasurable...
by Peter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well...
African-American Religion
Interpretive Essays in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
African American Religion brings together in one forum the most important essays on the development of these traditions to provide an overview of the field.
Milwaukee's Bronzeville
1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew from fewer than 1,000 in 1900 to nearly 22,000 by 1950. Most settled around a 12-block area along Walnut Street that came to be known as Milwaukee�s...