African American category: 7736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...
Patton's Panthers
The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others -- proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight...
African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865
Slavery, Freedom and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New Orleans to set up a fur trading fort on the Mississippi. Within a few decades, the fort had become a prosperous commercial center whose proximity to the western...
William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)
Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave / Clotel; or, the President's Daughter / The American Fugitive in Europe / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that...
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from...
Words of Fire
An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses...
Justice While Black
Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that system continues...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Shout Because You're Free
The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...
The Integration of the Pacific Coast League
Race and Baseball on the West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While Jackie Robinson’s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, the rest of Major League Baseball was slow to integrate while its Minor League affiliates moved faster. The Pacific Coast League (PCL), a Minor League...
Thursday Night Lights
The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the...
The White Image in the Black Mind
African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American...
by Martin Kilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.
Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out...