African American Studies category: 2787 books
Divining the Self
A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with...
Mapping Yorùbá Networks
Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí...
We've Always Been Free
Poems, Reveries, Short Stories, Photos and Other Musings of Growing up in Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio, this bucollic town set in the rustic fields of Northestern Ohio continue to represent the dreams and aspirations of a group of African American pioneers who fought not only the harships and vissitudes of this rural existence, but had to at the same time fight racism and prejudice...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...
by Harvey Williams Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Views of a Southern Black Man is a compilation of selected weekly editorials written by the author over a fifteen-year span. In this book, the author shares his experience with racism in the south. He also talks about the problems that continue to plague the African American community as he offers...
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity
A Philosophical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. Explicitly, the philosophical examination of Black Theology conceptually maps its quest for establishing Black Christology as an authentic...
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands...
by Ann Widdifield
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
A fascinating, sensitive, and well-researched book that enhances our understanding of the history of Shady Side, the history of Maryland, and the history of America. Its a story thats entertaining, educational, and important. --Kenneth T. Walsh, journalist and author of Family of Freedom: Presidents...
Andrew Young
Civil Rights Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador explores the rising influence of race in foreign relations as it examines the contributions of this African American activist, politician, and diplomat to U.S. foreign policy. Young used his positions as a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973D77),...
The Portland Black Panthers
Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed...
Counseling African American Males
Effective Therapeutic Interventions and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is no one method for doing culturally alert counseling. Instead, culturally alert counseling consists of intentionally adapting existing ways to help clients (1) understand their socially constructed worldviews through culture, (2) appreciate their various cultures, (3) to make choices about adherence...
by Vincent W. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders...
African American Men Struggle to Seek God
Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Have you ever felt the need for another chance with life?How about a third, fourth or fifth chance.
With this workbook, youve found it.Unscrambling words, filling in the blanks and more give way to self motivation. This workbook has four main issues; childhood trauma, pride, frustration and...
When Love Is Not Enough
Bringing Spirituality and Coping Back to Families and Homes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
America is losing touch with her young African American male population. Parents are losing touch with sons, and sisters are losing touch with brothers. Why is this? Why are adolescent black males becoming lost to their own self-destructive behaviors? Most parents arent going to like to hear it, but...