African American Studies category: 2787 books
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts...
Views from My Window
"Opening Closed Doors"
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Often called a modern day storyteller, Von Washingtons plays explore the social and psychological difficulties associated with being an African American living in modern day America. His insightful, action packed, emotional plays reveal the pain and laughter of men, women, and children fighting to...
Righteous Propagation
African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence...
"We Dare Say Love"
Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“We Dare Say Love” takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group...
Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought...
Robeson
An American Ballad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues—from football and film to law to Shakespeare. An extraordinary athlete-scholar-actor-singer, Robeson also became a crusader for human rights. And though he was admired by many, his controversial support of the...
American Negro Songs
230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans — at work, in church, and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs, and a variety of social and dance songs.
This important volume...
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Eight Cases, 1848-1856
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick...
American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
• Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
by Clarence Lusane
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.
Clarence...
by Asuzu Agwunobi
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The African Child author tells it as it happened from the harrowing childhood experience to the ups and downs of his adulthood in the African capital cities and the rural typical village. The interesting mix of hard work and faith in Gods Providence makes for an exhilarating reading that challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.
Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to...
The Fathers of My Children: the Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria
The Tale of Africans in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves...
My American Life
From Rage to Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Price M. Cobbs, M.D., coauthor, with William H. Grier, of Black Rage -- one of the twentieth century's most profound examinations of black life in America -- has been a witness to some of the most important events in American history.
Now, thirty years later, for the first time he reconsiders his...