African American category: 7736 books
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
Young, Gifted and Black
The Defiant Truth About Our Children’S Ability to Meet Every Foe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The most crucial information this generation of African American youth must know is the fact that unless they live their life with a sense of urgency and purpose, the world is going to pass them by. Now is the time for those who want something more out of life than mediocrity and the status quo to...
Hip Hop Dance
Meanings and Messages
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Son of "free persons of color," Charles W. Chesnutt was an important voice and the first African-American to gain recognition in literature. Grandson of a white man (probably a slave owner), Chesnutt had lighter skin and for that was commonly mistaken for a white man - a deception he always...
by Laura M. Towne
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
On April 9, 1862, 37-year-old Laura Matilda Towne to Port Royal Island, newly captured by the Union forces in the American Civil War. She spent the next 38 years of her life educating and ministering to freed slaves. She maintained the utmost belief in the humanity and possibilities for African-Americans....
I Cannot Tell a Lie
The True Story of George Washington's African American Descendants
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
THE FIRST PRESIDENT
Documented national history states that the nation's first president had no children. But the oral history of the descendants of this African American family tells a different story.
THE CONTROVERSY
Many people will believe the story of George Washington fathering a slave...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy...
by Linda Rucker Hutchens, Ella J. Wilmont Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Northeast Georgia, Hall County and the city of Gainesville have been significantly enriched by the contributions of their African-American residents. Hall County, Georgia is a retrospective photographic album; it is a glimpse of the past, featuring...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
A Voice of the Black Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented...
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party....
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers...
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle...
A Respectable Woman
The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active,...
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1995
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist...