African American category: 7736 books
Two Captains from Carolina
Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to...
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood
Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that attaining adulthood--and the associated political rights, economic opportunities, and sexual power that come with it--became...
by Yohuru Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The African American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century is one of the most important stories in American history. With all the information available, however, it is easy for even the most enthusiastic reader to be overwhelmed. In Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement, Yohuru Williams...
The House I Live In
Race in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years. This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide-ranging history of its kind--sheds new light on the...
Biracial in America
Forming and Performing Racial Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...
Dr. Susan Taylor's Rx for Brown Skin
Your Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Brown skin has a naturally warm, glowing complexion that ranges in shade from yellow to olive to dark brown and black (Asian, Latin, African-American, and Native American skin). The extra melanin that imparts these rich tones and helps protect skin from the sun can also make brown skin vulnerable...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such...
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
With Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920, Duke University Press proudly assumes publication of the final volumes of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. This invaluable archival project documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...
Obama's Peace in the Middle East
The Mideast Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Historic change has come to America with the election ofPresident Obama asthe first African American president. President Obama is on a global mission to not only bridge the gap of racial divide in America, but also to bring peace to the Middle East. The Americanpeoplehas captured his vision of hope...
The Problem of the Future World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s...
In Search of the Movement
The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus, Hedin does what good historians do, but...
by Carter Godwin Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
In 1933, American historian and educator Carter Woodson (1875-1950) delivered a powerful and prophetic denouncement of "Euro-centric"school curricula that still rings true. Woodson inspired black Americans to demand relevant learning opportunities that were inclusive of their own culture...
Pride
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of...
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.
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