African American Studies category: 2787 books
Living for the City
Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling...
Malcolm X
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This revealing look at the slain civil rights leader offers “invaluable information about his activities and progress as an activist and thinker” (The New York Times).
From March, 1953 forward, shortly after he was released from a Boston prison, the FBI watched every move Malcolm Little—aka...
The Lessons of Ubuntu
How an African Philosophy Can Inspire Racial Healing in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A roadmap to healing America’s wounds, bridging the racial divide, and diminishing our anger.
Mathabane touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his powerful memoir, Kaffir Boy, about growing up under apartheid in South Africa and was praised by Oprah Winfrey and Bill...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer,...
Money, Power, Respect
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
First, In What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, the bold and beautiful Denene Milner and Nick Chiles gave the real deal of love and relationships. It was hailed as the African American Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Then, in What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex, the savvy supercouple...
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it...
The Magnificent Mays
A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894–1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime...
by Brooke Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the...
Love Cemetery
Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My...
by John A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Since the founding of St. Louis in 1764, Downtown St. Louis has been a center of black cultural, economic, political, and legal achievements that have shaped not only the city of St. Louis, but the nation as well. From James Beckworth, one of the founders of Denver, Colorado, to Elizabeth Keckley, Mary...
The Biblical Journey of Slavery
From Egypt to the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Th e narrative presented provides a source of enlightenment for descendants of the African Diaspora. The past enslavement of Captive Africans was not an accident, but fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The Prophet Moses warned in scripture, that, the Hebrews will be enslaved in the latter days, by...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Outlining the 10 most significant reasons behind the high drop-out rate amongst black male students, this guide provides more than 30 solutions towards addressing this national crisis. Revealing that currently close to one half of black males do not graduate from high school, this exploration pursues...