African category: 8440 books
Stokely Speaks
From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism....
Living for the City
Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling...
Crime and Racial Constructions
Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of...
East Harlem Remembered
Oral Histories of Community and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages, the neighborhood attracted Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century and later saw an influx of Puerto Rican immigrants and African...
Malcolm X
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This revealing look at the slain civil rights leader offers “invaluable information about his activities and progress as an activist and thinker” (The New York Times).
From March, 1953 forward, shortly after he was released from a Boston prison, the FBI watched every move Malcolm Little—aka...
Terror in the Heart of Freedom
Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to...
Zimbabwe History, Culture and Tourism
Information on Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Zimbabwe of Africa as we know, has become more popular not for her economy or sports, but politics and government, this country has known a type of government and governance that is of choice divided. Among her citizen in particular, find out more about this country Zimbabwe for your self-education...
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness
Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
"I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America...
by Michael L. Ondaatje
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American...
Writing on the Wall
Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal
His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter, revolutionary-his...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
A gifted grassroots organizer,...
Tuareg Jewelry
Traditional Patterns and Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
For you, it may look like a small unimportant detail, like your thumbnail. But for me, it is the whole vast world. Look at this jewel... here is the ant, here is the hyena, the jackal, the hoof of a horse, that of a gazelle, the sun, the moon, the stars, the good eye... this triangle, this is woman,...
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston,...