African American category: 7736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...
by George Francis Dow
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The long, grim story of the slave trade is a tragic historical narrative. This darkest and most heartless era in African-American history saw millions of Africans kidnapped and sold into bondage in the West Indies, the American colonies, and later, the United States.
This history is recalled firsthand...
The Hip-Hop Generation
Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's...
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia’s racial purity campaign from the perspective of...
Reminiscences of an Active Life
The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His political career began in 1869 with his appointment as justice of the peace. Within the year, he was elected to the Mississippi...
A Different Day
African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged...
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The Permanence of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American...
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and social...
Homelands and Waterways
The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.
Beginning with John...
Real Role Models
Successful African Americans Beyond Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
All young people need good role models, and black youth especially need positive and real examples beyond the famous and wealthy people they see on SportsCenter highlights and MTV Cribs. While success as a celebrity athlete or entertainer may seem like an achievable dream, the reality is that young...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed into law a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, the holiday was first formally observed by the federal government. In response to the growing number of musical celebrations surrounding the holiday, Anthony McDonald published in 1996 the...
Black Resonance
Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright,...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...