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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass’s memoir of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental...
Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these...
War! What Is It Good For?
Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars...
Sisters in the Struggle
African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award
Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one...
by Louis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Slave narratives by African slaves from North America were first published in England in the 18th century. They soon became the main form of African-American literature in the 19th century. Slave narratives were publicized by abolitionists, who sometimes participated as editors, or writers if slaves...
by Richard M. Dorson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A preacher battles a bear, a mother returns from the dead, and a clever servant conducts a Big Feet Contest in this rich anthology of African-American folklore. Scores of humorous and harrowing stories, collected during the mid-twentieth century, tell of talking animals, ghosts, devils, and saints.
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The Presumed Alliance
The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As Latino and African Americans increasingly live side by side in large urban centers, as well as in suburban clusters, the idealized concept of a "Rainbow Coalition" would suggest that these two disenfranchised groups are natural political allies. Indeed, as the number of Latinos has increased...
He Talk Like a White Boy
Reflections of a Conservative Black Man on Faith, Family, Politics, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Actor and social commentator Joseph C. Phillips speaks powerfully about the topic of life as a conservative African-American actor, husband, father, and citizen. In today's political climate, with race such an issue, this collection of essays is not only timely, but thought provoking.
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George Henry White
An Even Chance in the Race of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. A North Carolina representative from 1897 to 1901, White was the last man of his race to serve in the Congress during...
Mama Africa
Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness....
The Hands of Peace
A Holocaust Survivor?s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany, only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.
Marione moved first to New York and then to Washington, D.C. where, in 1960, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination...