African American category: 7736 books
Civil Rights Childhood
Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals...
Take over Control
Without Physical Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
This Book is about universal human consciousness, religion, supernatural creativity, and spirituality illustrated with the African.
The issues (Based on US tour, 2008) analyzed, and for which solutions are propounded include:
A person loses control when a victim of Spiritual, Psychic,...
Race News
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage...
Divining the Self
A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia.
African...
Mapping Yorùbá Networks
Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí...
We've Always Been Free
Poems, Reveries, Short Stories, Photos and Other Musings of Growing up in Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Chagrin Falls Park, Ohio, this bucollic town set in the rustic fields of Northestern Ohio continue to represent the dreams and aspirations of a group of African American pioneers who fought not only the harships and vissitudes of this rural existence, but had to at the same time fight racism and prejudice...
Soul Power
Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Soul Power is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.”...
by Harvey Williams Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Views of a Southern Black Man is a compilation of selected weekly editorials written by the author over a fifteen-year span. In this book, the author shares his experience with racism in the south. He also talks about the problems that continue to plague the African American community as he offers...
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity
A Philosophical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. Explicitly, the philosophical examination of Black Theology conceptually maps its quest for establishing Black Christology as an authentic...
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands...
by Ann Widdifield
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
A fascinating, sensitive, and well-researched book that enhances our understanding of the history of Shady Side, the history of Maryland, and the history of America. Its a story thats entertaining, educational, and important. --Kenneth T. Walsh, journalist and author of Family of Freedom: Presidents...
Andrew Young
Civil Rights Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador explores the rising influence of race in foreign relations as it examines the contributions of this African American activist, politician, and diplomat to U.S. foreign policy. Young used his positions as a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973D77),...
Black Men and Depression
Saving our Lives, Healing our Families and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In mainstream society depression and mental illness are still somewhat taboo subjects; in the black community they are topics that are almost completely shrouded in secrecy. As a result, millions of black men are suffering in silence or getting treatment only in extreme circumstances–in emergency...