African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Annie L. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope—from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account...
Defying Disfranchisement
Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jim Crow strengthened rapidly and several southern states adopted new constitutions designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote. Since the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited eliminating voters...
Bending Toward Justice
The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...
Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award
Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one...
by Richard M. Dorson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African-American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid-twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints.
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Journey of Hope
The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement...
Toward Freedom Land
The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The ongoing struggle for civil rights and social justice lies at the heart of America's evolving identity. The pursuit of equal rights is often met with social and political trepidation, forcing citizens and leaders to grapple with controversial issues of race, class, and gender. Renowned scholar...
by Tonya A. Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
African Americans were present in Davidson County long before it was officially formed from Rowan County in 1822. The exact time or place of settlement remains in question. They served not only in the stereotypical roles of farm laborers and house slaves but also as skilled traders, blacksmiths, furniture...
by Andre D. Vann
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Durham County, North Carolina, once called the "Chicago of the South" and the "Capital of the Black Bourgeoisie," has long occupied an important place in the hearts and minds of those who called Durham County home. African Americans have played a vital role in the growth and development of the region...
by Cyprian Clamorgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves,...
by D. Molentia Guttman, Ernest Golden, African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai�i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai�i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo...
Stuck in Place
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...