African American category: 7736 books
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Villages, Ghosts, Lovers....And Red Rice is a hauntingly delightful true story of events that took place in the life of an African American family living in Savannah, Georgia from 1963 to 2000. Both dramatic and, at times, twistingly humorous, the story touches on root working, controversial interracial...
Don't Hate the Player Learn the Game
How to Spot "Ineligible" Eligible Bachelors
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Women would like to make better choices in selecting a mate, and this book helps them recognize the qualities they desire and how to find them beneath the façade men often possess. The book looks at nine different player stereotypes, including truth tellers, mama’s boys, betrayers, and deceivers,...
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
by Mattias Smångs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures.
By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical...
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN
First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929– ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon—known as Operation Frequent Wind—he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters...
New Dawn for African Women
Igbo Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities...
When Race Meets Class
African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents,...
by Benjamin Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black “chosenness” into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
So many parts of society target citizens of color for violence--what can be done?
Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color examines violence from a structural perspective, including violence in prisons, schools and colleges, churches, homes, and within political/corporate structures.
This...
Diamond
A Woman of the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This is a historical novel that is presented in the form of a memoir. The main focus is on an African American woman Diamond, who was part of the Great Migration in the 1940s. Diamond looks back at her life to share the hopes, dreams and struggles she and her husband Nathaniel had to move their family...
She Can Bring Us Home
Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time...
Financial Empowerment in the African American Church
Examining the Attitudes of Congregants to Adopt Christian Stewardship and Debt Management Principles
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This work captures the historical and cultural context for financial literacy in the twenty-first century in view of the Great Recession of 2008 to 2009.
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts...
Views from My Window
"Opening Closed Doors"
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Often called a modern day storyteller, Von Washingtons plays explore the social and psychological difficulties associated with being an African American living in modern day America. His insightful, action packed, emotional plays reveal the pain and laughter of men, women, and children fighting to...