African American category: 7736 books
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's...
Tyler Perry's America
Inside His Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry’s America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven of Perry’s highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and,...
Black, White, and Indian
Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often...
Bound For the Promised Land
African American Religion and the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s...
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings...
by Edward E. Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and...
Inner Lives
Voices of African American Women In Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences...
African American Women Educators
A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression,...
New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family, The
African American Missionaries to the Garifuna of Belize
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans,...
Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans
Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
In 1964, Muhammad Ali said of his decision to join the Nation of Islam: "I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be.†?
This sentiment, the brash assertion of individual freedom, informs and empowers each...
by Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Charles E. Allen Jr., Toya Conston
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore...
The Adventure Gap
Changing the Face of the Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
"An important new book about a crucial challenge facing the conservation movement" -- Spencer Black, vice president, Sierra Club
•*Chronicles the first all-African American summit attempt on Denali, the highest point in North America
•*Part adventure story, part history, and part argument...
W. E. B. Du Bois's "Talented Tenth"
A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
**In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois presented a radical leadership proposal…the “Talented Tenth” emphasized the education and training in leadership of ten percent of the African American population…[that] would transform the larger, uneducated segment of the population and lead them to higher levels...
by Michael Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Walter Harrison is a twenty something owner of an apartment building, Harrison's Palace, which he inherited from his father, as a patronizing gift to remind Walter of the disappointment he has become. Walter carries the burden of feeling ostracized by his fellow African Americans and internalizes...