African American Studies category: 2787 books
Is That Your Mom?
Voices of Cross Racially Raised Adults of The African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While White parents raising Black children has become increasingly salient in the last 20?30 years, the experience of those who grow up in these cross?racial families is much more complicated. Indeed, much of the adoption studies literature has privileged White parent voices, further silencing crossracially...
Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway
The Life of Cab Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab...
Life Is God's Best Gift
Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Following the success of the megabestselling Black Pearls, a collection of 365 African proverbs that illuminate the secret to peace and joy; and inspire the words of Cudjo Lewis in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon.
In Africa, grandparents traditionally share their wisdom about life and culture...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments....
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character...
When I Was a Slave
Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers' Project. One of the group's most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection,...
Territories of the Soul
Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on...
What Keeps Me Standing
Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In his previous bestsellers, Think and Grow Richand What Makes the Great Great, Dennis Kimbro revealed the success secrets of highly touted entrepreneurs, corporate climbers, and Olympic athletes, as well as famous black Americans from George Washington Carver to Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, and Jesse...
Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa
African Travel Guide for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now!
Voices in Our Blood
America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis **
Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...
by Ijeoma Oluo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
Letters to a Young Brother
MANifest Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students...
Richard Wright
A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in...
A Dreadful Deceit
The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for...