African American category: 7736 books
Civil Rights and Beyond
African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups...
Born along the Color Line
The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B....
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia's most impoverished...
Claiming Freedom
Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry....
African American Bryan, Texas
Celebrating the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Bryan was incorporated in 1872, but it would take more than ten years before its African American population was offered schooling. Nothing would come easy for them, but they persevered through hard work, ingenuity and family support. The success of today's generation is a direct result of determined,...
African American Slavery and Disability
Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from...
Liberia, South Carolina
An African American Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living...
by Millicent Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
And yet, We still stand is the second book in the Move Mountain, African-American, single parent series. Book two takes you on a political, social and economic journey from Washington (DC) to Walmart; from the top of the heap to the bottom of the pit and from a strategic agenda of disenfranchisement...
Primetime Blues
African Americans on Network Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A landmark study by the leading critic of African American film and television
Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of African Americans on network television. Donald Bogle examines the stereotypes, which too often continue to march across the screen today, but also shows the...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...
by Lawrence D. Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.
• Presents a wide variety of original materials,...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics?...
Becoming Black
Creating Identity in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Michelle M. Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and...