African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of...
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
With Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920, Duke University Press proudly assumes publication of the final volumes of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. This invaluable archival project documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...
Obama's Peace in the Middle East
The Mideast Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Historic change has come to America with the election ofPresident Obama asthe first African American president. President Obama is on a global mission to not only bridge the gap of racial divide in America, but also to bring peace to the Middle East. The Americanpeoplehas captured his vision of hope...
The Problem of the Future World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s...
In Search of the Movement
The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...
by Carter Godwin Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
In 1933, American historian and educator Carter Woodson (1875-1950) delivered a powerful and prophetic denouncement of "Euro-centric"school curricula that still rings true. Woodson inspired black Americans to demand relevant learning opportunities that were inclusive of their own culture...
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of...
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.
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Liberia, a Bulwark of Rage
My First Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is about racial profiling in Liberia, and I feel it would be suitable for everybody to know about. Throughout the existing accusatory writing, sometimes Liberians and foreigners have dominant thought about whether racial profiling is ingrained in the people. The founding of Liberia has exalted...
Acting White
The Curious History of a Racial Slur
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is "acting white," is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces...
The Key to the Door
Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
The Key to the Door showcases rare first-person narratives of pioneering black students who desegregated UVA in the 1950s and ‘60s. Situating their experiences in broad historical context, the book speaks to ongoing struggles to achieve racial equality in American higher education.
Before Jackie Robinson
The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
While the accomplishments and influence of Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali are doubtless impressive solely on their merits, these luminaries of the black sporting experience did not emerge spontaneously. Their rise was part of a gradual evolution in social...
Black Public History in Chicago
Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and...
Making a Slave State
Political Development in Early South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and...