African American category: 7736 books
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1994
On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery.
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Post Black
How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. Using information from conversations with mavericks within black communities-such as entrepreneurs, artists, scholars, and activists as well as members...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame.Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man...
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery...
by Louis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Slave narratives by African slaves from North America were first published in England in the 18th century. They soon became the main form of African-American literature in the 19th century. Slave narratives were publicized by abolitionists, who sometimes participated as editors, or writers if slaves...
The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...
American Slaves Tell Their Stories
Six Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Vivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious beliefs and practices, as well as the condition and progress of former slaves. Essential reading for students of African-American studies.
The Delectable Negro
Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on...
The Properties of Violence
Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with...
Mama Africa
Reinventing Blackness in Bahia
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Often called the “most African” part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country’s largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In Mama Africa, Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness....
The Secret Epidemic
The Story of AIDS and Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Half the people in the United States who are diagnosed with HIV are now African American. Through the eyes of those on the front lines of the crisis, journalist Jacob Levenson tells a story of race and public health that spans fifty years and reveals how AIDS has become one of the leading killers...
East Harlem Remembered
Oral Histories of Community and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages, the neighborhood attracted Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century and later saw an influx of Puerto Rican immigrants and African...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies...