African American Studies category: 2787 books
You Deserve Healthy Love, Sis!
The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In her previous books, the national bestsellers 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women’s Lives and 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women’s Lives, celebrated television personality, motivational speaker, and author Dr. Grace Cornish showed African-American women how to kick unhealthy habits, make...
Catfish Dream
Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.
Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters...
America's First Black Socialist
The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
In pursuit of his foremost goal, full and equal citizenship for African Americans, Peter Humphries Clark (1829--1925) defied easy classification. He was, at various times, the country's first black socialist, a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and an advocate for the Democrats. A pioneer educational...
Entangled by White Supremacy
Reform in World War I-era South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Despite its significance in world and American history, the World War I era is seldom identified as a turning point in southern history, as it failed to trigger substantial economic, political, or social change in the South. Yet in 1917, black and white reformers in South Carolina saw their world...
by Robert Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1997
First published in 1827 and the standard for household management for decades afterward, The House Servant's Directory is one of the first books written by an African American and issued by a commercial press. It was written while Roberts (ca. 1780-1827) was in the employ of Christopher Gore (1758-1827),...
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
An African Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 24: Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36...
by Karen Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal...
Crossroads at Clarksdale
The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town over fifty years, recognizing the accomplishments...
Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore
The Role of African Americans, 1930s to 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production in this very important region. African Americans were mainly involved in poultry production on the labor supply side, which was crucial to the expansion of the industry....
The Morning Breaks
The Trial of Angela Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in New York City two months...
My Brother Slaves
Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days.
In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation...
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers...