African category: 8440 books
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
Gotham Diaries
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan.
Lauren is trying to be an independent woman, starting her own documentary film company, but it's difficult when you're married to Ed Thomas, one of the wealthiest African-American...
Discretion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist.” —Essence
Dutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter...
Utopian Generations
The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally...
Beyond Ebonics
Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics", however the idea remains a mystery to most. John Baugh, a well-known African-American linguist and education expert, offers an accessible explanation of the origins...
by Ronald E. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Texas is a Southern state, and in many ways, Houston is a typical Southern city. While Houston did not experience the types or degrees of racial violence found in other Southern cities during the Jim Crow era, black Houstonians nonetheless found themselves often relegated to the margins of society. For...
The Debt
What America Owes to Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks—and what blacks owe themselves.
In this powerful and controversial book,...
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
To Make a New Race
Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of Greek-born mystic G. I. Gurdjieff on the thinking of...
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research...
by Malama Katulwende
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Fictional and Non-Fictional Essays - Passionate and often controversial: Over the last few years, Zambian writer Malama Katulwende (winner of the Julius Chongo Award 2006 for Best Creative Writing, at the Ngoma Awards ceremonies) has published more than forty articles for the website ukzambians.co.uk....
The End Is Just the Beginning
Lessons in Grieving for African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A nationally revered minister and certified grief specialist shares words of comfort for Africans Americans in mourning.
Every culture has unique ways of coping with the devastating loss of a loved one, but in some households these important traditions have succumbed to the modern emphasis...