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by Jan Batiste Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
People of African heritage have traveled to Monterey since the 1770s, when African Spaniard Alexo Nino, a ship's caulker, traveled with Fr. Junipero Serra to Monterey via the San Antonio. For centuries since Nino, black men and women migrated to the Monterey Bay area in search of a new life. In the...
How Long? How Long?
African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel?
The Truth and Other Insights About the African American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel challenges a long-held belief that has permeated the African American community that suggests that Blacks, generally, are not supportive of each other. Author and educator, Rodney D. Smith, tenaciously confronts the age-old myth that African Americans stand in the...
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
Their Highest Potential
An African American School Community in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North...
by Robert T. Palmer, Andrew T. Arroyo, Alonzo Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Most experts agree that America's success depends on having a workforce that is highly prepared in STEM areas. Unfortunately, students of color continue to be underrepresented in higher education, and specifically, in completing degrees and entering careers within the STEM fields. This book supports...
Flavor and Soul
Italian America at Its African American Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”...
Passed On
African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part...
Long March Ahead
African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy...
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
The Sociological Souls of Black Folk
Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Souls of Black Folk is W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous work. While the work is often viewed as a classic in African American literature and the history of the African American experience, the sociological significance of the work has been understated. In his initial discussions with the book's original...
Killing African Americans
Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized...
New Day Begun
African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights...