African American category: 7736 books
American Nightmare
The History of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined draconian punishments...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials
The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape...
by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and...
American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
• Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
American Slavery As It Is
Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The stories of hundreds of African-Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, the accounts include personal narratives from freed slaves as well as testimonials from active and former slave owners, presenting a condemnation of...
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
The Roughest Riders
The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the postslavery era
Many have heard how Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt’s success was...
by Clarence Lusane
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.
Clarence...
by Asuzu Agwunobi
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The African Child author tells it as it happened from the harrowing childhood experience to the ups and downs of his adulthood in the African capital cities and the rural typical village. The interesting mix of hard work and faith in Gods Providence makes for an exhilarating reading that challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.
Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to...
The Fathers of My Children: the Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria
The Tale of Africans in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The Fathers of My Children: The Genealogy and Lifestyle Changes of the Umorens of Asong in Eastern Nigeria describes the ancestral origin of the Umorens and the existing lineal connection with all Africans in the Diaspora, regardless of their different migrational pathways in which they found themselves...
Greatness in the Shadows
Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby joined Robinson in breaking the color barrier in the major leagues when he became the first black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to be a seven-time All-Star...
Scattered Assets
How African-Americans & Other Resources Can Shape 21St Century Pan-African Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
Scattered Assets seeks to be a conduit for facilitating a much-needed and provocative dialogue on optimal 21st Century Pan-African development, through understanding the leverage and power of resource use; a selected, 8-work anthology of the authors speeches and writings (from the vantage points of...
by Lawrence Schenbeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized...