African American Studies category: 2787 books
Liberia, South Carolina
An African American Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living...
Primetime Blues
African Americans on Network Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A landmark study by the leading critic of African American film and television
Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television. Donald Bogle examines the stereotypes, which too often continue to march across the screen today, but also shows the...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
by Lawrence D. Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.
• Presents a wide variety of original materials,...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...
Queen of Bebop
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
Washington Post Best Book of 2017
Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year
Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of the Year
Booklist Top Ten Arts Book
Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan,...
Becoming Black
Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and...
Tyler Perry's America
Inside His Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry’s America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven of Perry’s highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and,...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
Black Corona
Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In Black Corona, Steven Gregory examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. Using historical and ethnographic research, he challenges the view that black urban communities are "socially disorganized." Gregory demonstrates instead how working-class...
Abiding Courage
African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty...
by Edward E. Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and...
Cabin Pressure
African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
From African American pilots being asked to carry people’s luggage to patrons refusing drinks from black flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the “friendly skies.” The book draws on interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to...