African American category: 7736 books
by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s...
by Jefta Iluyomade
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Whether centuries ago in Africa or yesterday in America, racism defines the black struggle. The two young men in A Tribalist Two find their societies and cultures pulling them in many different directions. The choices they make are influenced by history, and the consequences could very well be deadly.Even...
Jasmine’S Journey
(I Know I Been Changed)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Jasmine does not like middle school at all. With her father away in the army, Jasmine struggles to endure every boring day of eighth grade. Desperate to escape her unhappy reality, Jasmine etches her feelings into her desk in an effort to prove that she really is a mean kid. As the days drag on, it...
The Color of Change
Meet the New Faces of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
My name is Pernell Demetrius Saulsberry Sr and I was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 23rd, 1964; I am the older of two males. I was raised between two historical cites; three blocks from Mason Temple and five blocks from the Lorraine Motel during the civil rights movement. Growing up in Memphis...
by Eugene Frazier Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen slave plantations. For many African Americans, it is hard to imagine how far this small island has come. It has left them with a legacy of both the joy and...
Tenderheaded
A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
What could make a smart woman ignore doctor's orders?
What could get a hardworking employee fired from her job?
What could get a black woman in hot water with her white boyfriend?
In a word...
HAIR.
When does a few ounces feel like a few tons? When a doctor advises a black woman to start an exercise...
by Jeanne Herring Ed.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
In this engaging new visual history showcasing Macon�s African Americans, vintage photographs illuminate the contributions and achievements of black citizens who have lived and worked in the heart of Georgia for more than one hundred and fifty years. Local landmarks, such as the Douglass Theater and...
Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most...
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call
Activist Voice for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories that may have influenced news...
The Amistad Rebellion
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by...
Slave Religion
The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...
In Search of the Promised Land
A Slave Family in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier...
Black Greek-letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
During the twentieth century, black Greek-Letter organizations (BGLOs) united college students dedicated to excellence, fostered kinship, and uplifted African Americans. Members of these organizations include remarkable and influential individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr., Congresswoman Barbara...