African American category: 7736 books
1,999 Facts About Blacks
A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1996
Black History Month is a year-round affair! In this second edition of 1,999 Facts about Blacks, approximately one third of these facts are achievements since 1986 when the first edition was published. Also included is a bibliography for those who want to pursue African-American history beyond the question-and-answer phase.
Black Culture and the New Deal
The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the administration...
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature
2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
2012...
Stare in the Darkness
The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Rap’s critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the “hip-hop mayor” of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop...
Black Empire
The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows...
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...
The Buffalo Soldiers
A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly...
by Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers....
Prophets Of Protest
Reconsidering The History Of American Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical...
A Curse upon the Nation
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel...
Autobiography of a People
Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
by Austin Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.
“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part...
Game Changers
Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous...