African American Studies category: 2787 books
Hard Work Is Not Enough
Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening...
Too Much to Ask
Black Women in the Era of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how...
By Any Greens Necessary
A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle.African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability...
Achieving Blackness
Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the “Afrocentric era” of the 1980s...
by Robert J. Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976). They changed the way white and black America viewed each...
To Any Foe
History of the Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment of African Americans in World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment, African American, embarked for North Africa in February 1943 and landed at Algeria. The regiment became nomadic and split up its battalions and companies to work in different locations, including port stewards, road construction, and clearing...
Challenging U.S. Apartheid
Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those...
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
"Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War. Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to...
by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America:...
The Cry Was Unity
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and...
Defending the Spirit
A Black Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Randall Robinson's Defending The Spirit is a personal account of his rise from poverty in the segregated south to a position as one of the most distinguished and outspoken political activists of our time. In 1977, Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African...
African Americans on Martha's Vineyard
From Enslavement to Presidential Visit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
African Americans of Martha's Vineyard have an epic history. From the days when slaves toiled away in the fresh New England air, through abolition and Reconstruction and continuing into recent years, African Americans have fought arduously to preserve a vibrant culture here. Discover how the Vineyard...
Family Bonds
Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved...