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Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's...
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature
Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization.
To Make Our World Anew
Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is...
by Kwame A. Insaidoo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
The African has been separated from his Black American brothers and sisters since the dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Millions of Africans were forcibly ejected from their native soil, separated from their loved ones-their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and torn from the lives they once...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history. An overview of major biographical figures and history-making events is followed by a deeper look at the development...
by Tonya A. Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
African Americans were present in Davidson County long before it was officially formed from Rowan County in 1822. The exact time or place of settlement remains in question. They served not only in the stereotypical roles of farm laborers and house slaves but also as skilled traders, blacksmiths, furniture...
by Andre D. Vann
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Durham County, North Carolina, once called the "Chicago of the South" and the "Capital of the Black Bourgeoisie," has long occupied an important place in the hearts and minds of those who called Durham County home. African Americans have played a vital role in the growth and development of the region...
Faith in the City
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
“The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the ‘Long New Negro Renaissance,’ triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done a better job of tracing those...
by Cyprian Clamorgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves,...
The Soul of Judaism
Jews of African Descent in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States
What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in America and the counter-narratives they have put forward as they stake their claims to Jewishness.
The Soul of Judaism offers the first exploration...
by D. Molentia Guttman, Ernest Golden, African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai�i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai�i his home and starting a family there in 1810. The 25th Black Infantry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo...
Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost always...
A Dream Foreclosed
Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Told through the eyes of four homeowners-a grandmother in Detroit, an entrepreneur in rural North Carolina, a man in Chattanooga, and a mother in Chicago-A Dream Foreclosed presents a people’s history of the U.S. financial crisis and the rise of a people’s movement for economic justice, dignity,...
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination...