African American Studies category: 2787 books
Holding On
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
The Liberation of the African Mind
The Key to Black Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
The Liberation to the African Mind: The Key to Black Salvation is a strong book written to the millions of African Americans who have had their history distorted by the Church and public schools. Because of these distortions Black people are estranged and alienated from their culture and the wisdom...
The Operator
Fear No Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2004
In this first installment of The Operator series, Fear No Evil takes the reader on a head-shaking, thought-provoking, swearing-under-your-breath journey through the ugly world of corrupt politics, racial hatred, and terrorism.
Fear No Evil presents a new type of African-American hero, a tactical...
From Within the Frame
Storytelling in African-American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text...
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too....
by Benjamin Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black “chosenness” into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans...
Troubling Beginnings
Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
African American girls are one of the United States' most endangered populations, yet meaningful explorations of the issues that impact their lives are almost nonexistent. In this riveting book, led by one of the African American community's best-known scholars, experts from across the nation explain...
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In this lyrical,...
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights...
Flash of the Spirit
African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
Right to Ride
Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing...