African American category: 7736 books
Come Shouting to Zion
African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred....
by Kimberley L. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Daily Life during African American Migrations focuses attention to the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of migrants in the United States as they established communities far away from their former homes. This book examines blacks' labor and urban experiences, social and political activism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Detailed profiles bring stories of African American heroism in the U.S. armed forces to life, from the American Revolution through the conflict in Afghanistan.
• Shares 80 detailed biographies of African Americans who earned their nation's highest medals for valor
• Covers both well-known...
Righteous Riches
The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Does God want us to be wealthy? Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in the here and now. Other Christians see this "prosperity theology," as nothing more than vulgar materialism, incompatible with orthodox Christianity. In...
Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
by Keith Byerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their...
Long March Ahead
African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy...
The Sociological Souls of Black Folk
Essays by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Souls of Black Folk is W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous work. While the work is often viewed as a classic in African American literature and the history of the African American experience, the sociological significance of the work has been understated. In his initial discussions with the book's original...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
Reckoning Day
Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar...
by Stephanie Mitchem
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A new vocabulary for African American Studies
As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for...