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William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave / Clotel; or, the President's Daughter / The American Fugitive in Europe / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Kids, welcome to Africa! This is a great picture book that will take you to the beautiful African states and meet the people who call it home. Learn about the sights and sounds of the place. See the animals roaming in the safaris. Learn about the place’s traditions and cultures too. Go ahead and grab a copy today.
Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...
Defying Disfranchisement
Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jim Crow strengthened rapidly and several southern states adopted new constitutions designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote. Since the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited eliminating voters...
Fire on the Beach
Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THIS IS THE TRUE-LIFE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL COAST GUARD AND ONE CREW OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEROES WHO FOUGHT STORMS AND SAVED LIVES OFF NORTH CAROLINA'S OUTER BANKS.
Fire on the Beach recovers a lost gem of American history. It tells the story of...
Bending Toward Justice
The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer...
by Yolanda Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The divisions within colonized groups are often manifestations of a system designed to perpetuate racism and discrimination. Hierarchical systems of oppression have historically been created to maintain confusion and division. Whats more, media images have often been used as tools to support a colonial...
The People's Right to the Novel
War Fiction in the Postcolony
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.
The...
Turning South Again
Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute...
The Freedom Schools
Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates,...
A Fluid Frontier
Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery,...
Surrogate Suburbs
Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of...
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
Constructing the Black Masculine
Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones—Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate...