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Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The Permanence of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American...
by Karlyn Forner
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed...
One Blood
The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red...
by Beth Tompkins Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters,...
Representing Africa in Children's Literature
Old and New Ways of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young...
Telling Histories
Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various...
by Cajetan Iwunze
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
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All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
Homelands and Waterways
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.
Beginning with John...
Greater than Equal
African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school...
From Slave to Statesman
The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family,...
Souls
A Genealogical Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
It helps to know where we came from in order to understand ourselves. We have eight branches or four generations in our family tree as far back as our great-grandparents. The author was able to trace her ancestors even further back. Though she knew a lot about her ancestors, she did not know a lot...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Beyond The Chinese Connection, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael...