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by Annie L. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope—from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account...
Autobiography of a People
Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique...
by Joel Engel, Clarence B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that it is hard...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
by Austin Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.
“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.
As...
Game Changers
Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous...
African American Folktales
Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and...
by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slavery
Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England....
Post Black
How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities-such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members...
by Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave...
The Hidden Cost of Being African American
How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...