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by Sunni Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
An examination of Black loyalty to the flag, this book looks at the views of Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson Sr., and many others. It reviews the response of the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter. The book discusses the loyalty of African Americans...
A Legacy Remembered
The African American Community of West Medford
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
West Medford, Massachusetts has been home to a thriving African American community, where families have lived for generations since the end of the Civil War. The stories of its residents have been fading as elders die and families move away. Most of the history of this neighborhood resides within...
Within the Veil
Black Journalists, White Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism.
Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html
Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded African Americans in the mainstream media. While...
Environment at the Margins
Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together...
Civil Rights and Beyond
African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups...
Born along the Color Line
The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B....
May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately...
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning...
Food From Across Africa
Recipes to Share
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Discover the amazing cuisine of Africa with this beautiful full-color cookbook featuring classical and modern African dishes.
With its diverse, delicious flavors, African food is “some of the best on the planet,” yet remains little known to many in the wider world. To introduce this wonderful...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The year of 1980 marked a pivotal turning point in the American political landscape: the electoral victory of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan; the beginnings of the public hysteria and eventual legislative dismantling of affirmative action and other civil rights initiatives; the dawn of the ruthless...
by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous objects of study across dominant ethnological...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...