African American category: 7736 books
by Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York...
A More Noble Cause
A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A More Noble Cause presents both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's...
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always...
Mending the World
Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American...
Frederick Douglass
America's Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation...
Black Baseball, Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social...
Sidelined
How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City as a demonstration against racial discrimination in the United States and around the world. Though the boycott never materialized, Edwards's ideas struck...
Black Americans and Organized Labor
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor movement. Moreno applies insights of the law-and-economics movement to formulate a powerfully compelling labor-race theorem of elegant simplicity:...
by Steven J. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Using post–Civil War Richmond, Virginia, as a case study, Hoffman explores the role of race and class in the city building process from 1870 to 1920. Richmond’s railroad connections enabled the city to participate in the commercial expansion that accompanied the rise of the New South. A highly...
Freedom to Serve
Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman’s decision to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which resulted in the integration...
America
Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur is an extensive ecopolitical treatise that delivers an intense overview of the key social maladies that plague todays world-- and their historical American, European, colonial, economic and ideological roots. It also provides a clear, bold and visionary formula...
by Lucille Clifton
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years."--Publishers Weekly"All poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it."--Publishers Weekly"If...