African American category: 7736 books
by Ahmed Ceegaag
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book will be talking about for-profit college admissions and their professors revolutions in the future. I would like to stop discrimination from for-profit colleges. And what is happening to innocent students like me? They have ruined the American Dreams of young people such as new immigrants...
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press
Framing Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have...
Mercy, Mercy Me
African-American Culture and the American Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the 1960s can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the...
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
by Terry McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fiction forever.
Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel—its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy...
by Paule Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"An unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears." — Herald Tribune Book Review"Passionate, compelling . . . an impressive accomplishment." — Saturday Review"Remarkable for its courage, its color, and its natural control." — The New YorkerSelina's mother wants...
by Bernice L. McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African American family’s history to mend present day relationships . . . Ms. McFadden has a beautiful writing style that is simultaneously lyrical and transparent. In parts of...
by Robert O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
• World premiere in 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC, where it received strong reviews.
• Additional production at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2013.
• Upcoming New York premiere, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in fall 2014, as the opening production...
Hidden in Plain View
A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.
In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
Hidden Figures
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst,...
Runaway Slaves
Rebels on the Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations...
A Gentleman of Color
The Life of James Forten
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2002
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being...
by George Washington Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the...