African American category: 7736 books
Making Black History
The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey...
Talking at Trena's
Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general....
by Percival Everett, James Kincaid
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Praise for Percival Everett:
If Percival Everett isn’t already a household name, it’s because people are more interested in politics than truth.”-Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble
Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
A collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
"[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." — Alice Walker
"A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing …. This book should be on all readers' and writers' desks and in their minds." — Maya Angelou
Hailed...
Bad Boys
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students...
by Turry Flucker, Phoenix Savage
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Enslaved Africans and free people of color of Louisiana deserve the title of �Founding Fathers� just as much as the French, the Spanish, and the Americans. In spite of their subjugated role as slaves, African Americans of Louisiana, and subsequently New Orleans, were contributors to the success of...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
And Still I Rise
Black America Since MLK
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White...
The Art of Richard Mayhew
A Critical Analysis with Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden’s group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated...
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic,...
African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law after Thurgood...