African American category: 7736 books
Double Negative
The Black Image and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such...
Girls Most Likely
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
“We didn’t know then that the dramas we imagined weren’t even warm-ups for what real life held for us.”
From the fifth grade to their fifth decade, Vaughn, Reenie, Susan, and Audrey share secrets and dreams–their lives connected like silk threads through rich fabric, pulling but never...
by Iceberg Slim
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Angeles' meanest, toughest streets.
Here is the newly discovered novel by Iceberg Slim, the creator and undisputed master of African-American "street...
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil
The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden—the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014—sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.
“I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot....
After
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.
For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly consumed...
Mama's Child
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter.
Mama’s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in...
by Bettye Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Griffin is a budding name in mainstream African American fiction. --Chicago magazine
After her father's death, Emily Yancy agrees to move back to her dead-end hometown. But she's dreading every minute she'll have to spend in her mother's tiny apartment. After all, she's a forty-three-year-old...
by Bettye Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A Delightful Summer Read. --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Reuben and Camille have always been afraid to let their children play outside in their rough Bronx neighborhood. So when they see an ad for homes in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, they jump at the chance. Spirits are high--until Reuben loses...
by Martha Southgate
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The New York Times hailed Martha Southgate’s previous novel, The Fall of Rome, as “powerful,” O, the Oprah Magazine called it “quietly accomplished,” and Essence lauded it as “a bracingly honest look at race, class, and self-acceptance.” With Third Girl from the Left, Southgate brings...
Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives,...
Beloved Harlem
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerpts...
The Time is Always Now
Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception...
Ain’t Got No Home
America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand...
Better Homes of South Bend
An American Story of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In 1950, a group of African American workers at the Studebaker factory in South Bend met in secret. Their mission was to build homes away from the factories and slums where they were forced to live. They came from the South to make a better life for themselves and their children, but they found Jim Crow...