African American category: 7736 books

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What It Means to Be Daddy

Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children

by Jennifer Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001

Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children. Jennifer F. Hamer challenges both the imposition of an inappropriate value system and the resulting ineffectual social policies....
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Hard Work Is Not Enough

Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace

by Katrinell M. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening...
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Raising the Race

Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community

by Riché J. Daniel Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to “have it all,” raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet...
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by Beverly Pettiford
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012

The Essence Of Exposure: Explores the lives, loves and losses of an American Indian and African family known as the Risingsun's. Descendants were born to this deep-seated ethnic mixture but Adrianna, the appointed matriach, was determined to live as American as apple pie.Adrianna remeninsces...
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The Waterbear

Samhain Shake, #1

by Wade C. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015

Samhain Shake has never had a conversation with his mother due to her dying only hours after birthing him, but he feels himself infused with the curiosity of spirit born of the mystic collision of French, Spanish, African and Native American in her Creole blood. This curiosity of spirit manifests not...
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Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself

A True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and Woolly" West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author

by Nat Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers...
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Too Much to Ask

Black Women in the Era of Integration

by Elizabeth Higginbotham
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how...
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Achieving Blackness

Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century

by Algernon Austin
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006

Achieving Blackness offers an important examination of the complexities of race and ethnicity in the context of black nationalist movements in the United States. By examining the rise of the Nation of Islam, the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the “Afrocentric era” of the 1980s...
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The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II

The U.S. Army's First All African American Tank Unit

by Joe Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit. By December 1944 they were fighting the Axis in Northern Italy, from the Ligurian Sea through the Po Valley and into the Apennine Mountains, where they helped breach the Gothic Line—the Germans’ last major...
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Voices of the Self

A Study of Language Competence

by Keith Gilyard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991

A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self is a penetrating analysis of the linguistic and cultural "collision" experienced by African-American students in the public education system. Gilyard examines black students "negotiate" their way through school and discusses...
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Doing Time on the Outside

Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America

by Donald Braman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009

"Stigma, shame and hardship---this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll mass incarceration takes on the parents, partners, and children left behind." -Katherine S. Newman "Doing Time on the Outside brings...
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Searching for the New Black Man

Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

by Ronda C. Henry Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and...
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Race and the Obama Administration

Substance, symbols and hope

by Andra Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history. Did the historic election of a black president actually change the status of blacks in the United States? Did these changes (or lack thereof) inform blacks' perceptions of the President? This book explores...
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Darkwater

Voices from Within the Veil

by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012

The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Reflecting the author's ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this...
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