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A Voice from the South
By a Black Woman of the South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent...
Stuck in Place
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...
Racism in the Nation's Service
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's...
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven...
The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency.
Renowned for his cool reason vis-à-vis the pitfalls and clichés of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy—Harvard...
The Second American Revolution
Closing the Four Basic Gaps of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The book will describe the major gaps that exist between African Americans and their white counterparts. The story is a historical presentation of decisions that were made by political and religious leaders dating back to the early 17th century that would eventually lead to the sad state of the modern...
Fighting Their Own Battles
Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism...
Black Women in Sequence
Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga,...
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation
African Americans and the Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B. McClellan failed in his plan to capture the Confederate capital and bring a quick end to the conflict. But the campaign saw something new in the war--the participation of African Americans in ways that were critical to the Union offensive....
African Cuisine
Edible Excellence, #7
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Africa is the second biggest continent on the globe. It's inhabited by diversified people of different ethnic groups and cultures, therefore their cooking styles and techniques vary a lot.
Because food imports are very limited, ninety percent of food products are home grown and organic.
Most African...
The Laughing Cry
An African Cock and Bull Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic...
Tales of Conjure and The Color Line
10 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
A pioneer in the development of fiction giving voice to the African-American experience, Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) found literary success with his "conjure tales" — vignettes from black folk life, recounted partially in the vernacular — and later with his "stories of the color line,"...
The Chinaberry Tree
A Novel of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent,...