African American Studies category: 2787 books
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning...
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid...
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The Permanence of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American...
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
Homelands and Waterways
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.
Beginning with John...
Transcending Blackness
From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics. Some depict multiracial individuals as mired in painful confusion; others equate them with progress, as the embodiment...
Justice Leah Ward Sears
Seizing Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed into law a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, the holiday was first formally observed by the federal government. In response to the growing number of musical celebrations surrounding the holiday, Anthony McDonald published in 1996 the...
Black Resonance
Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright,...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 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...
Art of Being Cool
The Pursuit of Black Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Addressing the challenges facing adolescent black males, this book analyzes and stresses the importance of identity development. It helps educators and parents understand the importance of cultivating a positive black male identity and how this overlooked aspect of childhood development impacts young...
Liberalizing Lynching
Building a New Racialized State
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the question of how such a brazen disregard...
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants
A Resource Guide for Service Providers in Central Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants focuses on African immigrant elders culture, religion, and spirituality in the United States. The ultimate aim is to provide a resource guide on African immigrant elders for the social workers, nursing homes, physicians, pharmacists, bankers, lawyers,...
Black Men and Depression
Saving our Lives, Healing our Families and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In mainstream society depression and mental illness are still somewhat taboo subjects; in the black community they are topics that are almost completely shrouded in secrecy. As a result, millions of black men are suffering in silence or getting treatment only in extreme circumstances–in emergency...