African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Making of an African King
Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the Effutu of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
The Making of An African King is a study examining the causes of the kingship internecine struggle among the Effutu by exploring the two traditional systems of succession, the patrilineal and the matrilineal, among the Effutu (Awutu-abe), and how best to end political violence. Kingship or chieftaincy...
Illegible Will
Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that will's illegibility, given the paucity of materials outlining the agency of black historical subjects....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book, the second in the series, is a distinct exploration of how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs...
Like a Lily Among Thorns
Colonial African Village Child Transitions to Post-Colonial Modernity, and America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
* Awarded RECOMMENDED status by US Review of Books * Awarded FIVE STARS by Readers Favorite Reviews Imagine yourself having one foot planted on one continent while the other foot is on another continent. A huge transformational step, isnt it? Thats precisely what Inno Onwuemes early-life story does....
by Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brotherhood of man. This volume of West African folk tales includes a number of such tales, among them, "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Greedy...
by C. Samuel Johnson II
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book has many twists and turns regarding the plight of African-Americans in 21st century America. In the summary, a somewhat controversial proposal to combat violence in crime-laden areas of our nation is revealed. The diversity in America and the world is excellent. Individuals are learning...
by Eyamidé E. Lewis-Coker
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Proverbs, parables, and wise sayings are meaningful short sayings or vehicles through which morals are transmitted to adults, youths, and children. They are life experiences that Africans utilized to understand their past and present lives. These means of expressions are vital to the African culture...
Pan African Spaces
Essays on Black Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays on the identities created by those...
The Beast Side
Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri,...
by Claude Andrew Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head...
by August Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of...
by William Julius Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.
In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic...
Forty Million Dollar Slaves
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—Ebony
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired...
Waking from the Dream
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The author of A Stone of Hope, called “one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement” by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King’s assassination—and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil rights movement...