African American category: 7736 books
by Kevern Verney
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines:
* the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport,...
Black Mecca
The African Muslims of Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' These immigrants are immediately recognizable as African in their wide-sleeved robes and tasseled hats, but...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Gumbo
Celebration of African American Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars.
Not since Terry McMillan’s Breaking Ice have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume....
On the Down Low
A Journey Into the Lives of Straight Black Men Who Sleep With Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A bold exposé of the controversial secret that has potentially dire consequences in many African American communities
Delivering the first frank and thorough investigation of life “on the down low” (the DL), J. L. King exposes a closeted culture of sex between black men who lead “straight”...
Living In, Living Out
African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
The President's Kitchen Cabinet
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work—Non Fiction
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First...
Help Me to Find My People
The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers...
Angels of Mercy
White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation...
The Claims of Kinfolk
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among...
Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson
A Diary, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with...
The Rise of Gospel Blues
The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding...
Writing from the Black Soul
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century African American Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
African American short fiction can only be appreciated if read by first taking into account their multifarious responses to their contemporary political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. The stories presented in Writing from the Black Soul illustrate how in provocative ways African American...