African American Studies category: 2787 books
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education...
The Second American Revolution
Closing the Four Basic Gaps of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The book will describe the major gaps that exist between African Americans and their white counterparts. The story is a historical presentation of decisions that were made by political and religious leaders dating back to the early 17th century that would eventually lead to the sad state of the modern...
From Victimization to Empowerment
The Challenge of African American Leadership the Need of Real Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
From Victimization to Empowerment Offers a historical analysis that speaks to unique role African people played in America development of power and wealth, and Maafa - The African Holocaust, which stripped us of our culture, names, language, identity, and our system of cosmogony etc.
Speaks...
Fighting Their Own Battles
Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism...
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity
Celtic Soul Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black"...
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rock My Soul
Black People and Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people.
Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in...
Strength for Their Journey
5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and their parents cope with the myriad of social...
by Ernest H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Unlike the media would have you believe, most black males find great value in education. They want to believe that they have a special gift and that they can make a difference in the world. The problem is that they have ill feelings about how society has deprived them of the most qualified teachers...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
The House Servant's Directory
An African American Butler's 1827 Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
"In order to get through your work in proper time, you should make it your chief study to rise early in the morning; for an hour before the family rises is worth more to you than two after they are up."
So begins Robert Roberts' The House Servant's Directory, first published in 1827 and...