African category: 8440 books
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment...
Liberalizing Lynching
Building a New Racialized State
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the question of how such a brazen disregard...
by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Augustus Dill
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Morals and Manners among Negro Americans is the sequel to W.E.B. Du Bois' The Negro Church. This 1914 study is the last Atlanta University Conference volume to be edited or coedited by Du Bois and is based on a national survey addressing the then current state of morals and manners within the African...
by Jarik Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In The Fragile Mind, Dr. Conrad not only provides insight into what daily life is like for African Americans and individuals who are poor, he offers an innovative approach to overcoming these challenges based on what scientists have uncovered about the human brain - its brilliance, as well as its...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Comprehensive, well-documented 1896 classic draws upon a wealth of primary source materials to examine the South's plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much else.
Civil Rights Childhood
Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals...
Race News
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage...
Black, White, and Indian
Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often...
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing...
Close to the Sources
Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting...
Mapping Yorùbá Networks
Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí...
We've Always Been Free
Poems, Reveries, Short Stories, Photos and Other Musings of Growing up in Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio, this bucollic town set in the rustic fields of Northestern Ohio continue to represent the dreams and aspirations of a group of African American pioneers who fought not only the harships and vissitudes of this rural existence, but had to at the same time fight racism and prejudice...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...