African American category: 7736 books
When Clans Collide
The Germination of Adam’S Family Tree Through Surname, Life Experience, and Dna
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
When Clans Collide: The Germination of Adams Family Tree through Surname, Life Experience, and DNA tells the story of author Wayne Rudolph Davidsons surname and its ancestral connection to individuals and events that have shaped the world in which we live. When Davidson set out to discover the ancestral...
Darwin's Athletes
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times).
Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Unjust Deeds
The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive...
by Victor Jonathan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
This book tells the story of Victor Onafuye who immigrated to the United States of America at an early age to achieve the American dream and experienced racial discrimination as an African American minority living in the United States. The book covers his humble beginning as a young man growing up...
The Pursuit of Fairness
A History of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America. Published on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, this is the only book available that gives readers a balanced,...
by Jennifer E. Cheeks-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
Known as the "Land Between Two Rivers," Madison County is situated between the Pearl River to the east and the Big Black River to the west. It was created in 1828, and African slaves were among its earliest settlers. As the county grew, the African-American society began to create roots in this region,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2002
With essays by Tony Badger, David L. Chappell, Elizabeth Jacoway, Richard H. King, Ralph E. Luker, Charles Marsh, Keith D. Miller, Linda Reed, and Lauren F. Winner In the 1950s and 1960s the American South was in upheaval. Brilliant thinkers and writers joined on-the-ground activists to challenge segregation...
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize
and
Winner of the 2018 Opie Prize
Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how children’s folklore, especially among African Americans, has changed. From the tumult of integration to the present,...
The Work of Recognition
Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s. As Jason McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal...
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a...
Composition in Black and White
The Life of Philippa Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter,...
"They Say"
Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from Tennessee raised her voice. Her name was Ida B. Wells....
by Tom Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Don’t Start Me Talkin' is a comedic road novel about Brother Ben, the only remaining True Delta Bluesman, playing his final North American tour. Set in contemporary society, Brother Ben's protege Silent Sam Stamps narrates an episodic 'last ride,' laying bare America's complicated relationship with...