African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Eugene Frazier Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen slave plantations. For many African Americans, it is hard to imagine how far this small island has come. It has left them with a legacy of both the joy and...
Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives,...
The Time is Always Now
Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception...
by Jeanne Herring Ed.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
In this engaging new visual history showcasing Macon�s African Americans, vintage photographs illuminate the contributions and achievements of black citizens who have lived and worked in the heart of Georgia for more than one hundred and fifty years. Local landmarks, such as the Douglass Theater and...
Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most...
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood
Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that attaining adulthood--and the associated political rights, economic opportunities, and sexual power that come with it--became...
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call
Activist Voice for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories that may have influenced news...
Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...
The Amistad Rebellion
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by...
Slave Religion
The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...
In Search of the Promised Land
A Slave Family in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier...
Black Greek-letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Congresswoman Barbara...
by Lizzie PRB Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Alachua County�s African American ancestry contributed significantly to the area�s history. Onceenslaved pioneers Richard and Juliann Sams settled in Archer as early as 1839. They were former slaves of James M. Parchman, who journeyed through the wilderness from Parchman, Mississippi. They and others...