African category: 8440 books
There's No Danger in the Water
Encouraging Black Men to Become Mentors
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
In these pages Dr. Belay D. Reddick draws on his experience as a prominent mentor coach to provide practical advice on how to inspire African American boys and affect positive change in their lives. Youll find tips on everything from creating youth summits and working with the community to employing...
by Laura Caldell Anderson, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Since the city�s founding in 1871, African American citizens of Birmingham have organized for equal access to justice and public accommodations. However, when thousands of young people took to the streets of Birmingham in the spring of 1963, their protest finally broke the back of segregation, bringing...
The White House Queen
The Elegance and Strength of Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama is a remarkable figure, and author Raymond Sturgis carefully selected the words of this book to highlight the passion and life of Michelle Obama. Many know of her many achievements, however, what about her agenda to help change the nutritional conditions of America’s children....
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters,...
In My Father's House
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami's sexy South Beach.
Only the world's most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for...
Black Power
Politics of Liberation in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting...
by Cornelius Eady
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
**Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry
Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.
“A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families.”—The Village...
Negro with a Hat
The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin,...
Nigger
The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly...
by Yuval Taylor, Jake Austen
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years.
Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers...
by Eric Reese
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
House music was started in the trenches of urban America and is by far the most popular genre of music today.
For many who are aware of the American urban dance culture, House is a name that's synonymous with a deep passion. It is one of the premiere underground music genres found in 1977 as...
The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Malcolm X gave black Americans not only their consciousness, but their history, their dignity, and a new pride. No single individual can claim a more important responsibility for a sociological and historical leap forward such as the one sparked in America in the 1960s. In 1965, when Malcolm X was...
Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and...