African American Studies category: 2787 books
Hoodlums
Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes—individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have...
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament....
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press
Framing Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have...
Every Nation Has Its Dish
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American...
The Prince of Jockeys
The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred...
Geographies of Liberation
The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the...
Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention
The Old Negro in New Negro Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected...
Searching for Zion
The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun).
A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
by Ruth A. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Norfolk has been a center of African-American life since this country�s humble beginnings, when indentured African servants arrived in 1619 to the Tidewater region. Since that time, the African-American population has endured the atrocities of slavery, poverty, and inequality, and has emerged, through...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
African American Heritage Super Pack #1
Courage and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right....
The Greatest Works of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Darkwater, The Conservation of Races, The Economic Revolution in the South, Religion in the South, The Black North…
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate...
Known for My Work
African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
“Demonstrates that the ‘emancipation generation’ bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations.”—Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much...