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Standing in the Need of Prayer
A Celebration of Black Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Striking photographs and powerful prayers drawn from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture span the broad spectrum of black religious traditions through the ages.
From the darkest days on slave ships to the defiant times of the Civil Rights Movement, prayer has...
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part
Love and Marriage in African America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's...
by Lawrence D. Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.
• Presents a wide variety of original materials,...
Globalizing the Postcolony
Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing...
The Dream Is Lost
Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...
by Paul Von Blum
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently, this material is scholarly and, at best,...
From Slaveships to Scholarships
The Plight of the African-American Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In an era when black athletes are commonly compared to the African slaves, Dr. Pinckney attempts to draw a connection to William Rhoden’s “Forty Million Dollar Slaves” and Harry Edward’s earlier work about the black athletes’ integration and segregation issues. Furthermore, this book is...
In the Cause of Freedom
Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood...
Learning Zulu
A Secret History of Language in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property,...
Tyler Perry's America
Inside His Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry’s America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven of Perry’s highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and,...
The End of Days
African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding...
Bluejackets and Contrabands
African Americans and the Union Navy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented...
Black Neighbors
Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants...