African American category: 7736 books
Juneteenth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
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"[A]n extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall."--Newsday
From Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man--the long-awaited...
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston,...
Broken Shackles
Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective...
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
Along the picturesque southern banks of the Ohio River, the African-American communities of Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties have provided laborers and entrepreneurs to aid in the economic growth of the region from the earliest settlements to today. Despite numerous obstacles and against seemingly...
The Rise to Respectability
Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal...
Interpreting Tyler Perry
Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent...
Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States
On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric “reparations movement,” and they are united in their goal...
The Segregated Origins of Social Security
African Americans and the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth...
Democracy Betrayed
The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the perspective and insight of scholars of color that are too often missing from information produced by the asset building field (people and organizations seeking to help...
Lynched
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely...
Trustee for the Human Community
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key...
by Tavis Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In 2006, Tavis Smiley—along with a team of esteemed contributors—laid out a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans.The Covenant, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing...
Contested Images
Women of Color in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. The...