African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Charvette Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
We were Kings and Queens is a short story illustration of African-American History before the time of slavery. It explores the realities of the rich lineage, royal status, and the truth that must not be forgotten concerning the beginnings of Black History.
The Race of Sound
Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of...
Climb
Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
"Gadsden-Williams is an award-winning global diversity expert who launched Ceiling Breakers LLC to help women and professionals of color to reach their potential. In her book, she talks about her journey as a woman of color who's had top senior-level positions in corporate America while managing...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful...
by Mary Ross Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Soul Survivor explores the depths of human emotions, both real and imagined. That any of us reach adulthood in one piece, emotionally or physically is a miracle of no small proportion. That any of us reach adulthood to contribute back to society and become highly respected in the community is truly...
by Kiese Laymon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist"...
Gay Guerrilla
Julius Eastman and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that...
American Slavery As It Is
Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling...
Going Back to Gettysburg
Autobiography of a Corrupt Indian
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The book Going back to Gettysburg will be bought like hot cakes in intellectual circles in both America and India because it is a light presentation of the uniqueness of the American Civil War (1861-1965) in which 6,00,000 American soldiers, mostly White, laid down their lives to secure the release...
News for All the People
The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life...
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times
This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s...
Reimagining Equality
Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago
At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she turns to the topic of home. As our country reels...