African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Joel Engel, Clarence B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that it is hard...
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1994
On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons...
The Color of Christ
The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.
As...
Post Black
How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities-such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members...
by Charles Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Charles Ball's simply stated verbal account of the shocking events in his life provides gripping details of Southern slavery before the Civil War. His recollections and observations encompass the manner in which he was treated by planters and slaveholders in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia;...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame.Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man...
by Jean Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison’s seven later novels. Love comes in a new and surprising shape in each of the later novels; for example, Love presents...
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery...
Refugees from Slavery
Autobiographies of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In the mid-1850s, Boston abolitionist Benjamin Drew visited numerous Canadian towns, interviewing scores of refugees from Southern slave states and taking notes of what they had to say. For reasons of safety, he protected the identity of his informants and used fictitious names.
Drew's subsequent...
by Louis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Slave narratives by African slaves from North America were first published in England in the 18th century. They soon became the main form of African-American literature in the 19th century. Slave narratives were publicized by abolitionists, who sometimes participated as editors, or writers if slaves...
The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...
The Delectable Negro
Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on...
The Secret Epidemic
The Story of AIDS and Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers...