African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Sw. Anand Prahlad
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Outside the Lines
African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Outside the Lines traces how sports laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating sports teams to include white and black athletes alike, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the...
African Americans in White Suburbia
Social Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors,...
by Anthony Bogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions of ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism,...
by Kevin Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Christian singles face many challenges that threaten our peace of mind.African-American Christian singles must confront these and additional obstacles that arise solely because of our heritage and racial background.Compounding these challenges, many of us make decisions involving our spirituality,...
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Villages, Ghosts, Lovers....And Red Rice is a hauntingly delightful true story of events that took place in the life of an African American family living in Savannah, Georgia from 1963 to 2000. Both dramatic and, at times, twistingly humorous, the story touches on root working, controversial interracial...
Don't Hate the Player Learn the Game
How to Spot "Ineligible" Eligible Bachelors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Women would like to make better choices in selecting a mate, and this book helps them recognize the qualities they desire and how to find them beneath the façade men often possess. The book looks at nine different player stereotypes, including truth tellers, mama’s boys, betrayers, and deceivers,...
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN
First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929– ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon—known as Operation Frequent Wind—he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters...
New Dawn for African Women
Igbo Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities...
When Race Meets Class
African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents,...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
So many parts of society target citizens of color for violence--what can be done?
Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color examines violence from a structural perspective, including violence in prisons, schools and colleges, churches, homes, and within political/corporate structures.
This...
She Can Bring Us Home
Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time...
Financial Empowerment in the African American Church
Examining the Attitudes of Congregants to Adopt Christian Stewardship and Debt Management Principles
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This work captures the historical and cultural context for financial literacy in the twenty-first century in view of the Great Recession of 2008 to 2009.