African American category: 7736 books
Holding On
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the...
The Portland Black Panthers
Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed...
Diasporic Africa
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora...
The Minorities
The Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Sarah Langston is a Caucasian girl in love with her African American boyfriend, Richard Morris. Everything is cool until she finds out she is pregnant. Sarah has a broken family, and revealing this secret to her ever-supportive dad is the most difficult thing she has ever had to do. She finds comfort...
Counseling African American Males
Effective Therapeutic Interventions and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
There is no one method for doing culturally alert counseling. Instead, culturally alert counseling consists of intentionally adapting existing ways to help clients (1) understand their socially constructed worldviews through culture, (2) appreciate their various cultures, (3) to make choices about adherence...
by Vincent W. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders...
African American Men Struggle to Seek God
Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Have you ever felt the need for another chance with life?How about a third, fourth or fifth chance.
With this workbook, youve found it.Unscrambling words, filling in the blanks and more give way to self motivation. This workbook has four main issues; childhood trauma, pride, frustration and...
When Love Is Not Enough
Bringing Spirituality and Coping Back to Families and Homes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
America is losing touch with her young African American male population. Parents are losing touch with sons, and sisters are losing touch with brothers. Why is this? Why are adolescent black males becoming lost to their own self-destructive behaviors? Most parents arent going to like to hear it, but...
by Sw. Anand Prahlad
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Outside the Lines
African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Outside the Lines traces how sports laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating sports teams to include white and black athletes alike, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the...
African Americans in White Suburbia
Social Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class. High economic status has afforded them considerable employment opportunities and political resources—but not necessarily neighbors,...
From Within the Frame
Storytelling in African-American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman. At its core, the book compares the relationship of the "frame tale"-an inside-the-text...
by Kevin Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Christian singles face many challenges that threaten our peace of mind.African-American Christian singles must confront these and additional obstacles that arise solely because of our heritage and racial background.Compounding these challenges, many of us make decisions involving our spirituality,...
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the “black belt” because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in...