African American Studies category: 2787 books
Scattered Assets
How African-Americans & Other Resources Can Shape 21St Century Pan-African Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
Scattered Assets seeks to be a conduit for facilitating a much-needed and provocative dialogue on optimal 21st Century Pan-African development, through understanding the leverage and power of resource use; a selected, 8-work anthology of the authors speeches and writings (from the vantage points of...
The Communist Party in South Africa
Racism, Eurocentricity and Moscow, 1921-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Why is the history of communism in a country at the bottom of the African continent still important enough to warrant this book? South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that still has a strong communist party whose views are not only taken into account by the government, but whose members...
American Honor
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'...
The Veiled Garvey
The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973).
Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where she became involved in the Universal...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
The Black Experience in America
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In the fall of 1968, the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a series of public lectures delivered by outstanding students of the black past in an effort to clarify the role of the African American in America's history. This volume of essays by eight of the ten participants makes the lectures available...
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety of factors affecting a diverse group of college...
by Douglas E. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spiritual practices followed by millions around the world. Some scholars argue it is related to the Nubian religion of Egypt’s Dynastic Period. In an expanded second edition, this book examines the nature of African traditional...
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...
by Dorothy Bea Akoto-Abutiate
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
This book describes African Theology/ies and the Bible as a "contemporary mosaic." The book is shaped in the form of a "mosaic" with three patterns. One pattern deals with the Bible and Culture. The second deals with Hermeneutics (interpretations of various biblical texts) as they...