African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1996
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing...
Blackwards
How Black Leadership Is Returning America to the Days of Separate but Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The iconoclastic Black Republican strategist calls out leaders who fan the flames of racial rhetoric and sabotage a post-racial America
The euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's historic election had commentators naïvely trumpeting the beginning of a "post-racial America." In Blackwards,...
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War—and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin...
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize
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Winner of the 2018 Opie Prize
Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how children’s folklore, especially among African Americans, has changed. From the tumult of integration to the present,...
Becoming Belafonte
Black Artist, Public Radical
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the...
Sovereign Evolution
Manifest Destiny from "Civil Rights" to "Sovereign Rights"
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Rated 24th Best Black Book of 2009 Inside Black Hollywood Magazine
From emancipation to segregation to integration, African Americans exist today by virtue of a continuum of political evolutions, each of which is built upon prior legacies and achievements. In advancing our political progression,...
Racism and Hate
An American Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
RACISM and HATE: An American Reality, is a provocative new updated examination of Dr. Gunnar Myrdals epic study of the subject matter done over 70 years ago in the late 1930s. That study took a look at where race relations were in the country and the effect it was having on our democracy, some 70...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Restoring the Links
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence...
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African Americans at Risk: Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice [2 volumes]
Issues in Education, Health, Community, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
With all of the progress African Americans have made, they still face many risks that threaten the entire race or place segments in jeopardy of survival. This work examines the widespread problem and suggests solutions.
• Examines up-to-date statistical data on the primary issues negatively...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery,...
by Tom Gatten
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Tom Gattens The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainly a young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher Kojo Dedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive social change.
The story is told from the point of view of Deanie Hollins,...
A Story of Resilience
Immigration, Migration and Trauma of Sub-Sahara African Women in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
In this book, I weave together personal stories of my struggles growing up in an African culture at a time when education for girls was given little consideration, and there were stories of the traumas of surviving a political coup and a violent relocating, with stories of other women who experienced...
Black Lives Matter and Music
Protest, Intervention, Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar’s "Alright," J. Cole’s "Be Free," D’Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game’s "Don’t Shoot," Janelle Monae’s "Hell You Talmbout," Usher’s "Chains," and...