African American Studies category: 2787 books
Black Ball and the Boardwalk
The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, 1916-1929
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Giants’ accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach—an Atlantic City politician running...
Leveling the Playing Field
The Story of the Syracuse Eight
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The petition had four demands: access to the same academic tutoring made available to their white teammates; better medical...
by Leslie A. Heaphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, “Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have made the major...
Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
Moments of Impact
Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University, respectively. At a time when the overwhelming majority of their opponents and teammates...
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Former South End Press title that has sold 7,100 copies
Book helps readers understand rising tension between African Americans and police in wake of Mike Brown and Eric Garner murders
The foreclosure, unemployment, and incarceration crisis in the US has disproportionately affected African...
Black Exodus
The Great Migration from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of...
Family or Freedom
People of Color in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by...
Class and the Color Line
Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well...
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...
Bound in Wedlock
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Tera W. Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century and into the Jim Crow era. She reveals the practical ways couples adopted, adapted, or rejected white Christian ideas of marriage, creatively setting their own standards for conjugal relationships under conditions of uncertainty and cruelty.
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit
Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide latitude provided to the executive branch and to the Supreme Court by the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing from government enforcement data, legislative history, Supreme Court rulings, the 2006 reauthorization debate on the VRA, and...
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
Virginia, 1860-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional...