African American Studies category: 2787 books
Living for the Revolution
Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The first in-depth analysis of the black feminist movement, Living for the Revolution fills in a crucial but overlooked chapter in African American, women’s, and social movement history. Through original oral history interviews with key activists and analysis of previously unexamined organizational...
NOSY WHITE PEOPLE CALLING POLICE ON BLACK PEOPLE
WHITE AMERICA'S FEAR and SHAME
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
I understand America is a free country, however, that does not white people should feel free to harass and disrespect the life of African Americans. Nosy white people are making it a sick habit of calling police on African Americans for the sake of amusement and maybe to see police brutality. Nosy...
Two Year Journey Through East Africa
East Africa Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
The reason for writing this book was to let the African-American in America read about my experience in Africa.The excitement in traveling there and what I really experience in living there in the Country.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative "Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas" to an...
Santeria
African Spirits in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería* *community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful...
by Grace Cornish, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
"It's time to take back your power and your life--take it back from the bad relationships, bad careers, bad investments, bad company, and bad memories. It's time for you to live a fuller, happier, more productive, and wholesome life. This is your time to claim your blessings. God has given you a choice....
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs
Black Women, Food, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile...
Health Care in the Black Community
Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!
Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including...
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and...
Remaking Black Power
How Black Women Transformed an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought...
Power to the Poor
Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade...
Africa's Armies
From Honor To Infamy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity...
Our Separate Ways
Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black...
Reading Is My Window
Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.
Foregrounding the voices of African American...