African American category: 7736 books
by Tom Gatten
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Tom Gattens The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainly a young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher Kojo Dedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive social change.
The story is told from the point of view of Deanie Hollins,...
by Anthony Bogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Sylvia Wynter’s work is distinctively Caribbean. From her exciting and rigorous interventions of ‘folk culture’ and its profound meaning for the symbolic universe of Caribbean reality, creative writing and the nature of Caribbean culture, to her present genealogical critique of Western humanism,...
by Jack Kassinger
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
When three CIA employees go missing, there is only one man willing to find them in the depths of the African wilderness. That man is Jack Casey, a retired CIA operative, and nothing can stop him—because one of the missing men saved his life.Casey is lucky to be alive after a horrific helicopter...
By Any Greens Necessary
A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle.African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability...
by Robert J. Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976). They changed the way white and black America viewed each...
To Any Foe
History of the Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment of African Americans in World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment, African American, embarked for North Africa in February 1943 and landed at Algeria. The regiment became nomadic and split up its battalions and companies to work in different locations, including port stewards, road construction, and clearing...
Challenging U.S. Apartheid
Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless...
Black Lives Matter and Music
Protest, Intervention, Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar’s "Alright," J. Cole’s "Be Free," D’Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game’s "Don’t Shoot," Janelle Monae’s "Hell You Talmbout," Usher’s "Chains," and...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those...
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
"Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War. Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to...
by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America:...
The Cry Was Unity
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and...
Defending the Spirit
A Black Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Randall Robinson's Defending The Spirit is a personal account of his rise from poverty in the segregated south to a position as one of the most distinguished and outspoken political activists of our time. In 1977, Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African...
African Americans on Martha's Vineyard
From Enslavement to Presidential Visit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
African Americans of Martha's Vineyard have an epic history. From the days when slaves toiled away in the fresh New England air, through abolition and Reconstruction and continuing into recent years, African Americans have fought arduously to preserve a vibrant culture here. Discover how the Vineyard...