African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Eyamidé Ella Lewis-Coker
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Proverbs, parables and wise sayings are life experiences.In actual fact, these are wisdoms, truths, warnings, morals, experiences and traditional views passed down from generation to generation.
These proverbs, parables and wise sayings express the wisdom of African people and are also the...
The Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans...
Porous Borders
Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim...
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity...
Farming While Black
Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly...
700 Notable Persons of African Ancestry 1400 Bc to Present Day
An Eye-Opener of 3,400 Years of World Black History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book contains little-known yet factual information about famous and not-so-famous persons of African descent that you may not have learned about in traditional history books. It also discusses the racial stock of people in the Bible.
by John McWhorter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2003
The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of Babel
John McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard...
by Waldo E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however,...
The Presumed Alliance
The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As Latino and African Americans increasingly live side by side in large urban centers, as well as in suburban clusters, the idealized concept of a "Rainbow Coalition" would suggest that these two disenfranchised groups are natural political allies. Indeed, as the number of Latinos has increased...
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered
A Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Thirty-five years after its initial publication, Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual," remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life, "The Crisis of the...
Black Stats
African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Black Stats-a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices,...
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women...
by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault....
A White Side of Black Britain
Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces...