African American category: 7736 books
Is Marriage for White People?
How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality:...
Groping toward Democracy
African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students
An Encyclopedia for Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on key elements of this long history, including folklore originally derived from African cultures that have survived...
How Long? How Long?
African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
Torchbearers of Democracy
African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war...
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
by Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Overcoming the Odds
Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding...
Black Television Travels
African American Media around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore,...
by Dr. Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
by Christina Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife examines the complexities and realities of singleness in individual, familial, and communal contexts. These realities that are emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, and social...