African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Miracles of Mentoring
How to Encourage and Lead Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
"How many times have you said, 'I'd like to help a child, but I don't know what to do? I don't have the time, I don't have anything to offer, I can't afford it.' I promise you, by the time you finish reading this book, all of these questions will be answered."
—from the Foreword by Tom Joyner, of...
"Cut from the Same Cloth"
A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill...
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males—from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting middle-class values, the impact of hip-hop culture, and drugs—this book provides answers and hope to teachers and the afflicted students and their...
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation
African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B. McClellan failed in his plan to capture the Confederate capital and bring a quick end to the conflict. But the campaign saw something new in the war--the participation of African Americans in ways that were critical to the Union offensive....
Contested Images
Women of Color in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. The...
by Edward P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Original and arresting….[Jones’s] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers.”
—Washington Post
“These 14 stories of African-American life…affirm humanity as only good literature can.”
—Los Angeles Times
A magnificent collection of short...
Incognegro
A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It...
by Elsie Augustave
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
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"Augustave, a first-time novelist, pens a well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage...a polished narrative that...
by Jennifer E. Cheeks-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2002
The African-American community of Gwinnett County boasts a rich heritage brought to life in scenes captured by early photography. These residents faced challenges and hardships both during and after slavery and entered into the turbulent 20th century poised for social change; theirs is an engaging story...
Picture Freedom
Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality...
Young, Gifted and Black
The Defiant Truth About Our Children’S Ability to Meet Every Foe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The most crucial information this generation of African American youth must know is the fact that unless they live their life with a sense of urgency and purpose, the world is going to pass them by. Now is the time for those who want something more out of life than mediocrity and the status quo to...
Hip Hop Dance
Meanings and Messages
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as...
by Laura M. Towne
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
On April 9, 1862, 37-year-old Laura Matilda Towne to Port Royal Island, newly captured by the Union forces in the American Civil War. She spent the next 38 years of her life educating and ministering to freed slaves. She maintained the utmost belief in the humanity and possibilities for African-Americans....
I Cannot Tell a Lie
The True Story of George Washington's African American Descendants
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
THE FIRST PRESIDENT
Documented national history states that the nation's first president had no children. But the oral history of the descendants of this African American family tells a different story.
THE CONTROVERSY
Many people will believe the story of George Washington fathering a slave...