African American category: 7736 books
Liberia, a Bulwark of Rage
My First Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is about racial profiling in Liberia, and I feel it would be suitable for everybody to know about. Throughout the existing accusatory writing, sometimes Liberians and foreigners have dominant thought about whether racial profiling is ingrained in the people. The founding of Liberia has exalted...
Acting White
The Curious History of a Racial Slur
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-American who is successful, well mannered, or well educated is "acting white," is a slur that continues to haunt blacks. Ron Christie traces...
The Key to the Door
Experiences of Early African American Students at the University of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
The Key to the Door showcases rare first-person narratives of pioneering black students who desegregated UVA in the 1950s and ‘60s. Situating their experiences in broad historical context, the book speaks to ongoing struggles to achieve racial equality in American higher education.
Before Jackie Robinson
The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
While the accomplishments and influence of Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali are doubtless impressive solely on their merits, these luminaries of the black sporting experience did not emerge spontaneously. Their rise was part of a gradual evolution in social...
Black Public History in Chicago
Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and...
by Joyce A. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles....
Making a Slave State
Political Development in Early South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and...
Globalization and Race
Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing...
Mutiny on the Amistad
The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of...
Medicating Race
Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines wide-ranging...
The Afro-Latin Diaspora
Awakening Ancestral Memory, Avoiding Cultural Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
This book is Jameelah's contribution to avoiding Afro-Latin American cultural and historical amnesia. This book highlights the many contributions of these forgotten people of Latin America, including African and Afro-Latin American heroes and freedom-fighters, religious and cultural traditions, and current social issues of ethnic and cultural identity.
by Jennifer A. Garey
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
California was home to the one of the first Native American cavalries and one of the first African American cavalries, commonly known as the Buffalo Soldiers. It was in California where the country saw the last official military cavalry in operation. California Cavalry displays the history of cavalry...
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
Fugitive Testimony
On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive...