African American Studies category: 2787 books
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
Working While Black
The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every...
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
by Carla L. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
by Carter Godwin Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Documented with information from contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and academic journals, this discerning study vividly recounts decades of harassment and humiliation, hope and achievement.
David Ruggles
A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty...
by John W. Blassingame
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking...
"Myne Owne Ground"
Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed...
by Hannibal B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa�s historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This �Negro Wall Street� bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism swelled in sectors of white Tulsa, and white...
Nine Lives of a Black Panther
A Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles–based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay...
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition
Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition....
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words
Selected Letters, 1931-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of almost two decades in prison they learned the rudiments...
by Philip J. Merrill, Uluaipou-O-Malo Aiono
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1999
Throughout the years, the city of Baltimore has played host to many well-known figures, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and boxer Joe Louis; the city has been called home by Billie Holiday, Frederick Douglass, and Thurgood Marshall. But it is the local African-American community's members, working diligently to advance and empower themselves, who made history while they lived it.
Cotton and Race in the Making of America
The Human Costs of Economic Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil...