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African Literature and Social Change
Tribe, Nation, Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together--writings by little-known black missionaries, so called...
African American Heritage Super Pack #2
Courage and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and...
The Life of Walatta-Petros
A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets.
From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born...
by Carl C. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes...
Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.
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In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing,...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
The President's Kitchen Cabinet
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work—Non Fiction
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First...
Damn Near White
An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair, she spent years struggling to convince others that she was black. Her family’s prominence set Carolyn’s experiences even further apart from those of the average African American. Her father and...
by Carole Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
NewsLady is the memoir of a trailblazing African American woman journalist whose life is about firsts. Carole Simpson was the first woman to broadcast radio news in Chicago, the first African American woman to anchor a local newscast in the same city, the first African American woman national network...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Concrete solutions to real-world problems are discussed in this guidebook for church officers on how to increase the involvement of African American males in the ministry. From drugs and prison to health and homosexuality, this treatise investigates the needs and trends of African American males,...
by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America:...
Untold Glory
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier,...