African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson, Richard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement,...
The Negro's Civil War
How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he...
Joe Gans
A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport. Gans was a master strategist and tactician, and one of the earliest practitioners of “scientific” boxing. As a black champion reigning during the Jim Crow era, he endured physical...
Du Bois: Essays
The Black North: A Social Study, Of the Training of Black Men, The Talented Tenth, The Conservation of Races, The Economic Revolution in the South, Religion in the South, Strivings of the Negro People
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "Du Bois: Essays" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author,...
Tuskegee's Truths
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad...
Joe Louis
The Life of a Heavyweight
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent non-team sports competitor.) In addition, Louis helped bridge the gap of understanding between whites...
by Walter Lord
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South
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On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An air force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits,...
by Kenneth W. Mack
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Representing the Race tells the story of African American lawyers who, during the era of segregation, confronted a tension between their racial and professional identities. Their untold stories pose the unsettling question: What, ultimately, does it mean to “represent” a minority group in the give-and-take of American law and politics?
Death Blow to Jim Crow
The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local...
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel
John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the...
Blackballed
The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial...
Redlined
A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred...
Framing the Black Panthers
The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the group's longtime relationship to the media,...
Turning the Wheel
Essays on Buddhism and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country. Or at least not with a high level of creative productivity."...