African American Studies category: 2787 books
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.
• Enables readers to comprehend how sports influence—and are influenced...
The Minds of Marginalized Black Men
Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from Chicago...
Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years...
Living Black History
How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding No!” with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and W.E.B. Du...
Bound to the Fire
How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent...
Uplifting the Race
Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused...
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...
by Karlyn Forner
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed...
One Blood
The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red...
Why Destiny Summoned These Three Orators Center Stage
More Than a Speech a Struggle—How the Constitution and Christianity Were Used as Liberation Tools for Change: a Critical Analysis of Three Selective Speeches of Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This book was written based on Betty Knights ability to balance and critically analyze three of these orators speeches made during three different eras of American history. Her insights allow readers to see what I saw immediately after speaking with on her on many occasions: her unique way of interpreting...
by Joyce A. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles....
Greater than Equal
African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school...