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Black Slaveowners
Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study reveals the extent to which African Americans played a significant role as slave masters. Examining South Carolina’s diverse population of African-American...
Confronting the Odds
African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap, and Bessie House-Soremekun provides this historical analysis...
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to rectify the situation, gathering advice and inspiring tips tailored for African Americans seeking to express their life...
Negro Comrades of the Crown
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued to collaborate with Great Britain against...
The Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000
Specters of the Shore
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This book offers a new approach to reading the cultural memory of Africa in African American fiction from the post-Civil Rights era and in Black British fiction emerging in the wake of Thatcherism. The critical period between the decline of the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the twenty-first...
Chaotic Justice
Rethinking African American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship....
African American Almanac
400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The most complete and affordable singlevolume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph...
Free Within Ourselves
Fiction Lessons For Black Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
A Bird by Bird for the African-American market--A top-notch writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe.
In her introduction, Jewell Parker Rhodes writes: "Never...
Power and Influence
Self-Development Lessons from African Proverbs and Folktales
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The timeless wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales enriches self-development and positive influence. The inspiring results provide deeper understanding...
by Tim Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the men and women who created seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for...
A Refugee from His Race
Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the...
Lakeland
African Americans in College Park
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Lakeland, the historical African American community of College Park, was formed around 1890 on the doorstep of the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, in northern Prince George�s County. Located less than 10 miles from Washington, D.C., the community began when the area was...
How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic,...
African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law after Thurgood...