African category: 8440 books
Psychology of Blacks
Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.
This text highlights the limitations of traditional psychological theories and approaches when applied to people of African descent....
by James M. Paradis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The Sesquicentennial edition of African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign, expands the range of research beyond its original 2006 edition. With a foreword from chief historian emeritus of the National Park Service, Edwin C. Bearss, Paradis sets the stage by introducing readers to the important...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...
Blue Eyes on African-American History
A Learning Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Until Bayard Rustins lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation, which sponsors a pledge calling for liberty and justice for all.
The...
Archives of Flesh
African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Lean'tin Bracks, Linda T Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Celebrate the Achievements . . .The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History chronicles 400 years of African American history. This comprehensive resource explores the past, the progress, and the present of African Americans in four volumes, each building, complementing, and expanding on the...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
African Diaspora and the Metropolis
Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North...
Translation in African Contexts
Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial...
An African Republic
Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality,...
African American Foreign Correspondents
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and...
The Liberation of the African Mind
The Key to Black Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
The Liberation to the African Mind: The Key to Black Salvation is a strong book written to the millions of African Americans who have had their history distorted by the Church and public schools. Because of these distortions Black people are estranged and alienated from their culture and the wisdom...
African American Officers in Liberia
A Pestiferous Rotation, 1910–1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties...