African American category: 7736 books
Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure...
American Honor
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans'...
Race on Trial
Law and Justice in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2002
This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials...
The Veiled Garvey
The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973).
Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where she became involved in the Universal...
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 1996
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing...
Blackwards
How Black Leadership Is Returning America to the Days of Separate but Equal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The iconoclastic Black Republican strategist calls out leaders who fan the flames of racial rhetoric and sabotage a post-racial America
The euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's historic election had commentators naïvely trumpeting the beginning of a "post-racial America." In Blackwards,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War—and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin...
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
Becoming Belafonte
Black Artist, Public Radical
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the...
North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS
Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the...
Racism and Hate
An American Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
RACISM and HATE: An American Reality, is a provocative new updated examination of Dr. Gunnar Myrdals epic study of the subject matter done over 70 years ago in the late 1930s. That study took a look at where race relations were in the country and the effect it was having on our democracy, some 70...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
by Douglas E. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spiritual practices followed by millions around the world. Some scholars argue it is related to the Nubian religion of Egypt’s Dynastic Period. In an expanded second edition, this book examines the nature of African traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery,...