African American Studies category: 2787 books
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones...
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren,...
A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it...
For a Voice and the Vote
My Journey with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of American college students descended on Mississippi to help the state's African American citizens register to vote. Student organizers, volunteers, and community members canvassed black neighborhoods to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP),...
Martin R. Delany
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth...
Huey P. Newton
The Radical Theorist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message....
by Christopher Claude Verga, African American Museum of Nassau County
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Long Island has been in the corridors of almost all major turning points of American history, but Long Island has been overlooked as a battleground of the civil rights movement. Since early colonization by the English settlers in the 17th century, the shadow of slavery has bequeathed a racial caste system...
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad
Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1996
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story...
by Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York...
A More Noble Cause
A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always...
Mending the World
Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American...
Frederick Douglass
America's Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation...