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Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as...
Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section
2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young...
When Race Meets Class
African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents,...
Game of Privilege
An African American History of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United...
by Lindsey R. Swindall
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Lindsey R. Swindall examines the historical and political context of acclaimed African American actor Paul Robeson's three portrayals of Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom and the United States. These performances took place in London in 1930, on Broadway in 1943, and in Stratford-upon-Avon...
Nimrod
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Chadian writer Nimrod—philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist—is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod’s writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for...
Farming While Black
Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly...
Hoodlums
Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes—individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have...
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament....
Ukutya Kwasekhaya
Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A collection of favorite recipes by Nelson Mandela’s personal chef, this book contains the food served to visiting heads of state, celebrities, and politicians for more than 20 years. Featuring some of the former South African president’s favorite meals, including samp and beans, farm chicken,...
700 Notable Persons of African Ancestry 1400 Bc to Present Day
An Eye-Opener of 3,400 Years of World Black History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This book contains little-known yet factual information about famous and not-so-famous persons of African descent that you may not have learned about in traditional history books. It also discusses the racial stock of people in the Bible.
She Can Bring Us Home
Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time...
by Jack Darrell Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military—it would...
Mottak
An African Tale of Immigration and Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Imagine being stranded in the heart of winter, in an isolated town at the northern edge of the world. Though born on the continent of Africa, political officials have made citizenship and social mobility at home difficult for many youth and young adults to realize. And so some flee to Europe, seeking...