African American category: 7736 books
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2000
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Ronald L. Baker
Lives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.
Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is...
Laughing Fit to Kill
Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the...
Hair Story
Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade...
The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783
An Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religious and philosophical arguments with extensive documentation of the slave trade based on eyewitness reports from Africa and the colonies, Benezet's antislavery...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass based his only fictional work on the gripping true story of the biggest slave rebellion in U.S. history. The Heroic Slave was inspired by a courageous uprising led by Madison Washington in 1841. Washington rallied 18 of the 135 slaves aboard a ship bound for New...
Pawned Sovereignty
Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
"Pawned Sovereignty will be a collector's item, alongside Welsing's Isis Papers and Woodson's Mis-Education of the Negro." - Rolling Out Magazine
""Aharone's bold blueprint for black sovereignty sounds more like a long overdue prescription than an incendiary manifesto."...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety of factors affecting a diverse group of college...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...
by M. Cooper Harriss
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Examines the religious dimensions of Ralph Ellison’s concept of race
Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man provides an unforgettable metaphor for what it means to be disregarded in society. While the term “invisibility” has become shorthand for all forms of marginalization, Ellison...
Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South
Resistance and Non-Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thought
Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are focused upon, together with Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara...
The Color of Power
Racial Coalitions and Political Power in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California. Oakland has been at the forefront of California’s multicultural changes for decades. Since the 1960s, the city has been a shining example of a fruitful liberal black-and-white political partnership...
Race, Faith and Politics Today
Getting From Here to Eternity Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
Race, Faith and Politics Today gives a born-again view on race, American culture, Donald Trump's presidential quest and other cutting-edge topics in compiling more than 125 nationally award-winning newspaper columns by Kyle Huckins, a white clergyman in a predominantly black denomination and veteran...
Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares
Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares, originally published in 1985, was the first book to make an in-depth examination of the cadre of African American lawmakers in Texas after the Civil War. Those few books that addressed the subject at all treated black legislators en masse and offered little...