African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy...
by Linda Rucker Hutchens, Ella J. Wilmont Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Northeast Georgia, Hall County and the city of Gainesville have been significantly enriched by the contributions of their African-American residents. Hall County, Georgia is a retrospective photographic album; it is a glimpse of the past, featuring...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
A Voice of the Black Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented...
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers...
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle...
A Respectable Woman
The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active,...
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1995
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist...
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College:...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
African American History in New Mexico
Portraits from Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state. Here, Bruce Glasrud assembles the best information available on the themes, events, and personages of black New Mexico...
How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed...
Long Past Slavery
Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination...
by Robert S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity....