African category: 8440 books
Taboo
Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they...
Justice Leah Ward Sears
Seizing Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...
Darwin's Athletes
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times).
Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
by Daniel Matlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern cities. On the Corner revisits the volatile moment when African American intellectuals were thrust into the...
The Meaning of the Beginning
A Perspective from an Igbo-African Popular Religious Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
The Meaning of the Beginning is a mosaic of timeless wisdom hidden in nature and encapsulated in the folklores of the Igbo of sub-Saharan Africa. This book is a philosophical jab, a moral punch line, and a social commentary on the human condition. Curious minds, teachers and students of Philosophy,...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner
Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on...
Unjust Deeds
The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed into law a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, the holiday was first formally observed by the federal government. In response to the growing number of musical celebrations surrounding the holiday, Anthony McDonald published in 1996 the...
Eating Right
Simple, Healthy, Satisfying and Delicious African Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Contained in this book are 132 recipes of natural foods prepared the African way in very simple manner, but very tasty and life changing in that they are healthy and modest in cost.