African American category: 7736 books
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In 1835 Oberlin became the first institute of higher education to make a cause of racial egalitarianism when it decided to educate students “irrespective of color.” Yet the visionary college’s implementation of this admissions policy was uneven. In Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College:...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
African American History in New Mexico
Portraits from Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state. Here, Bruce Glasrud assembles the best information available on the themes, events, and personages of black New Mexico...
How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed...
by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Molefi Kete Asante, Daryl B. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of...
Long Past Slavery
Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination...
by Robert S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity....
I'll Find a Way or Make One
A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A comprehensive and definitive guide to America's 107 historically black colleges and universities, this commemorative gift book explores the historical, social, and cultural importance of the nation's HBCUs and celebrates their rich legacy.
Included in this one-of-a-kind collection are:
Detailed...
Gender and Jim Crow
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the...
Without Regard to Race
The Other Martin Robison Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning...
Blues Vision
African American Writing from Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.
Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how...
Building the Black Metropolis
African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton...