African American category: 7736 books
Reinventing Citizenship
Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles...
African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia
Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African American community. Experience the harrowing narratives of trials and triumph as Alexandria's African Americans helped to shape not only their hometown...
Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the...
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
by Paul Von Blum
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literature focuses on the dramatic events of the African American resistance to Jim Crow and oppression from the mid 1950s through the early 1970s. Frequently, this material is scholarly and, at best,...
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and accomplishments—from...
African American Women's Life Issues Today: Vital Health and Social Matters
Vital Health and Social Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
After decades of research devoted to women's health, a federal agency focused on women's health, and millions of dollars allocated to address women's health disparities, African American women are still the sickest American citizens. This book examines why.
African American Jazz and Rap
Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact upon African American culture and traditions....
Market Movements
African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Winner of the 2009 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as...
Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section
2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young...
by David Vassar Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota's population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on the history and culture of the state from its earliest days to the present. Author David Taylor chronicles the rich history of Blacks in the state through...
Media Across the African Diaspora
Content, Audiences, and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...