African American Studies category: 2787 books
Great Speeches by African Americans
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics.
The collection begins...
Mirror to America
The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Companion to the PBS Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by some as "worse than slavery," African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land and building businesses, churches,...
Rising from the Rails
Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights
When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer...
Daily Cornbread
365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows African American women how to soothe the soul, satisfy the mind, and revive the body 365 days a year.
Written in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous, Daily Cornbread is a day-by-day compendium...
Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
Building a Legacy of Black History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness...
Exodus from the Door of No Return
Journey of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
After sixty years, Dr. Roy G. Phillips, retired founding campus president at Miami-Dade College, Homestead Campus, returned to his native home in rural Webster Parish outside of Minden, Louisiana. It took him almost forty years to fulfill a dream, a journey that began as a conversation with renowned...
At Mama's Knee
Mothers and Race in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Winner of the African American Literary Show Award for Best Non-Fiction
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every...
Emancipation Day
Celebrating Freedom in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans...
Lift Every Voice and Sing
A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem; 100 Years, 100 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
"A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln's birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercise. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies...
1,999 Facts About Blacks
A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1996
Black History Month is a year-round affair! In this second edition of 1,999 Facts about Blacks, approximately one third of these facts are achievements since 1986 when the first edition was published. Also included is a bibliography for those who want to pursue African-American history beyond the question-and-answer phase.
Black Culture and the New Deal
The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the administration...
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...