African American Studies category: 2787 books
From Slave to Statesman
The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family,...
When Clans Collide
The Germination of Adam’S Family Tree Through Surname, Life Experience, and Dna
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
When Clans Collide: The Germination of Adams Family Tree through Surname, Life Experience, and DNA tells the story of author Wayne Rudolph Davidsons surname and its ancestral connection to individuals and events that have shaped the world in which we live. When Davidson set out to discover the ancestral...
The Afro-Latin Diaspora
Awakening Ancestral Memory, Avoiding Cultural Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
This book is Jameelah's contribution to avoiding Afro-Latin American cultural and historical amnesia. This book highlights the many contributions of these forgotten people of Latin America, including African and Afro-Latin American heroes and freedom-fighters, religious and cultural traditions, and current social issues of ethnic and cultural identity.
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
Darwin's Athletes
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times).
Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...
Unjust Deeds
The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive...
The Pursuit of Fairness
A History of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America. Published on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, this is the only book available that gives readers a balanced,...
by Jennifer E. Cheeks-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
Known as the "Land Between Two Rivers," Madison County is situated between the Pearl River to the east and the Big Black River to the west. It was created in 1828, and African slaves were among its earliest settlers. As the county grew, the African-American society began to create roots in this region,...
The Work of Recognition
Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s. As Jason McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal...
The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783
An Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religious and philosophical arguments with extensive documentation of the slave trade based on eyewitness reports from Africa and the colonies, Benezet's antislavery...
Composition in Black and White
The Life of Philippa Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter,...
by M. Cooper Harriss
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s concept of race
Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While the term “invisibility” has become shorthand for all forms of marginalization, Ellison...
"They Say"
Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from Tennessee raised her voice. Her name was Ida B. Wells....
What It Means to Be Daddy
Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children. Jennifer F. Hamer challenges both the imposition of an inappropriate value system and the resulting ineffectual social policies....