African American category: 7736 books
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves...
Essays on Social Issues & How They Impact African Americans and Other People of Color
Law, Literature, and Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Essays on Social Issues spans the gamut of social and political issues in law, literature and social work. It provides a diverse perspective on the practical implications of social policy, marginalization, and The Arts as it relates to people of color. Not only does this research consider traditional...
The Operator
Fear No Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2004
In this first installment of The Operator series, Fear No Evil takes the reader on a head-shaking, thought-provoking, swearing-under-your-breath journey through the ugly world of corrupt politics, racial hatred, and terrorism.
Fear No Evil presents a new type of African-American hero, a tactical...
Stigma and Culture
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States—and around the globe—is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring other stigmatized...
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too....
Troubling Beginnings
Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.
Making Gullah
A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
African American girls are one of the United States' most endangered populations, yet meaningful explorations of the issues that impact their lives are almost nonexistent. In this riveting book, led by one of the African American community's best-known scholars, experts from across the nation explain...
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants
A Resource Guide for Service Providers in Central Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants focuses on African immigrant elders culture, religion, and spirituality in the United States. The ultimate aim is to provide a resource guide on African immigrant elders for the social workers, nursing homes, physicians, pharmacists, bankers, lawyers,...
by Elizabeth Nunez
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A woman struggles with love, work, and identity in a novel by “one of the finest and most necessary voices in contemporary American and Caribbean fiction” (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin).
Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, is eager to assimilate in her new country—but...
The Liberation of the African Mind
The Key to Black Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
The Liberation to the African Mind: The Key to Black Salvation is a strong book written to the millions of African Americans who have had their history distorted by the Church and public schools. Because of these distortions Black people are estranged and alienated from their culture and the wisdom...
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In this lyrical,...
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a lawyer, he won the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that integrated all public schools in the United States. But Marshall's contributions extend far beyond significantly advancing the civil rights...