African American Studies category: 2787 books
Diasporic Africa
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora...
Stigma and Culture
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States—and around the globe—is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring other stigmatized...
by Mattias Smångs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures.
By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical...
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically,...
by Robert O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.
• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.
• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production...
Hidden in Plain View
A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.
In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
Hidden Figures
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst,...
Runaway Slaves
Rebels on the Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations...
A Gentleman of Color
The Life of James Forten
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2002
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being...
by George Washington Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Addresses the question of why the church is 75 percent female and offers ways to bring black men back to God.
Bryan Prince's Underground Railroad 2-Book Bundle
My Brother's Keeper / One More River to Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Award-winning author Bryan Prince portrays the experiences of slaves and former slaves in these compelling histories of the Underground Railroad and American Civil War. This special two-book collection includes:
My Brother’s Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
The stirring...