African American Studies category: 2787 books
Inner Lives
Voices of African American Women In Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences...
African American Women Educators
A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression,...
New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family, The
African American Missionaries to the Garifuna of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans,...
Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans
Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: "I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be.†?
This sentiment, the brash assertion of individual freedom, informs and empowers each...
The Adventure Gap
Changing the Face of the Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
"An important new book about a crucial challenge facing the conservation movement" -- Spencer Black, vice president, Sierra Club
•*Chronicles the first all-African American summit attempt on Denali, the highest point in North America
•*Part adventure story, part history, and part argument...
by Steven A. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The movement of Southern blacks to the urban North and West over the course of the 20th century had a profound impact on black life, affecting everything from politics and labor to literature and the popular arts. This encyclopedia provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive reference work...
W. E. B. Du Bois's "Talented Tenth"
A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
**In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois presented a radical leadership proposal…the “Talented Tenth” emphasized the education and training in leadership of ten percent of the African American population…[that] would transform the larger, uneducated segment of the population and lead them to higher levels...
The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures
A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American...
by Vorris L. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
From the Kitchen to the Parlor
Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book describes the contributions of twenty-two educators and events that have shaped the field of education, often receiving little to no public recognition, including: Edmonia Godelle Highgate, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Selena Sloan Butler, Alonzo Aristotle Crim, Sabbath Schools, and African American...
Game of Privilege
An African American History of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United...
by Lindsey R. Swindall
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Lindsey R. Swindall examines the historical and political context of acclaimed African American actor Paul Robeson's three portrayals of Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom and the United States. These performances took place in London in 1930, on Broadway in 1943, and in Stratford-upon-Avon...