African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...
Education as Freedom
African American Educational Thought and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...
by Dr. Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
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This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date details
Historic sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role...
Black Men Built the Capitol
Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date detailsHistoric sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role of blacks...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African...
Defining Moments
African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative...
In The Company Of Black Men
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
From the subaltern assemblies of the enslaved in colonial New York City to the benevolent New York African Society of the early national era to the formation of the African Blood Brotherhood in twentieth century Harlem, voluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities.
In...
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.
Hilary Green...
Identity and African American Men
Exploring the Content of Our Characterization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Identity and African American Men: Exploring the Content of Our Characterization provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.
Identity and African American Men makes a unique contribution to the literature by offering a conceptual...