African American category: 7736 books
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part
Love and Marriage in African America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's...
The Dream Is Lost
Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
The End of Days
African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding...
Of Times and Race
Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy. This extraordinary collection of essays...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
The Racial Glass Ceiling
Subordination in American Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conservatives blame black behavior. Both define the race problem...
Yes We Did?
From King's Dream to Obama's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. Not since the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has the United States seen such remarkable advances. During Obama's historic campaign, however, prominent African Americans voiced concern about his...
Abiding Courage
African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty...
Show Us How You Do It
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Marshall Keeble (1878–1968) was the premier evangelist in black Churches of Christ from 1931 until his death in 1968. Born and reared in middle Tennessee, Keeble came under the influence of Preston Taylor, Samuel Womack, and Alexander Campbell, as well as the social influence of Booker T. Washington....
Cabin Pressure
African American Pilots, Flight Attendants, and Emotional Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
From African American pilots being asked to carry people’s luggage to patrons refusing drinks from black flight attendants, Cabin Pressure demonstrates that racism is still very much alive in the “friendly skies.” The book draws on interviews with African Americans in the flight industry to...
The Collected Works of Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Darkwater, The Conservation of Races, The Economic Revolution in the South, Religion in the South, The Black North…
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Collected Works of Du Bois" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist,...
by Steven A. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The movement of Southern blacks to the urban North and West over the course of the 20th century had a profound impact on black life, affecting everything from politics and labor to literature and the popular arts. This encyclopedia provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive reference work...