African American category: 7736 books
Righteous Propagation
African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence...
"We Dare Say Love"
Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“We Dare Say Love” takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group...
by Tayari Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION**
**“A...
Robeson
An American Ballad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues—from football and film to law to Shakespeare. An extraordinary athlete-scholar-actor-singer, Robeson also became a crusader for human rights. And though he was admired by many, his controversial support of the...
American Negro Songs
230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans — at work, in church, and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs, and a variety of social and dance songs.
This important volume...
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution
Eight Cases, 1848-1856
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick...
Left of the Color Line
Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American,...
My American Life
From Rage to Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Price M. Cobbs, M.D., coauthor, with William H. Grier, of Black Rage -- one of the twentieth century's most profound examinations of black life in America -- has been a witness to some of the most important events in American history.
Now, thirty years later, for the first time he reconsiders his...
The Black Experience in America
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In the fall of 1968, the University of Texas at Austin sponsored a series of public lectures delivered by outstanding students of the black past in an effort to clarify the role of the African American in America's history. This volume of essays by eight of the ten participants makes the lectures available...
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
Piracy and Personhood in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of...
The Travelers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
**“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly
“An...
Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought...
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations...
by Anita Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail.