African category: 8440 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the Workshop examines the variety...
The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture
Beneath the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more panoramic picture of African American expressivity within hip-hop.
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh perspective on the many facets of sexism experienced...
by Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on how...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia’s racial purity campaign from the perspective of...
by Johnny E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues...
Idlewild
The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...
Making a Way out of No Way
African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in...
by Devorah Heitner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative...
Against Normalization
Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2001
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however,...
by John Osom
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The idea of writing this book, titled Killing of African-Americans by Racist Cops, came up when Father John Osom was teaching a course on Contemporary Issues in Ethics among which was Racism in the University of St Thomas. Houston Texas in 2015. This book refutes categorization of people into Black...