African American category: 7736 books
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
An American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
I was brought up in [Kentucky]. Or, more correctly speaking, I was flogged up; for where I should have received moral, mental, and religious instruction I received stripes without number, the object of which was to degrade and keep me in subordination. I have been dragged down to the lowest depths...
by Vigil Chimé
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
There’s an old expression, forgive and forget. Were this book about that, it would have concluded in far far fewer pages than what you have here. This book is about the opposite – not forgiving, not forgetting, about the avenging of a despicable wrong that in turn spawns a vicious cycle of retribution.
This...
by Yasmin Marie Headley
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
In the year 2084 citizen number 2040a struggles to find his place in the Orwellian society. Trapped in the monotony of life 2040a longs for companionship, and to discover what it means to be an African American in a time when races no longer exist. Restlessness leads him to a curious discovery, and...
A White Woman To The Congo
The Tale of Sumpi, a traditional Chief's Man & Ears
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Kazadi, the Chief of a Central African village, wonders how he could help his people to dramatically improve their daily life and reconcile timeless African tradition with 21st century Western lifestyle. He comes up with an unexpected solution to be carried out by his most trustworthy counselor and...
The Sexy Part of the Bible
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
From the author of Long Train to the Redeeming Sin, “the most jubilant celebration of black African beauty so far seen in the English language” (The Boston Globe).
Following in the footsteps of her idols Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Kola Boof asserts her own literary prowess with a chilling...
Go for Yours
A Compilation of Young, African Americans Who Were Brave Enough to Reach for the Stars.
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Go for Yours, a guide for ambitious, faithful and progressive individuals who yearn to break conventional models of living; is a collection of stories and examples of young, African Americans who followed their dreams no matter their age, background or years of work experience. This book uses examples...
Root and Branch
African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes...
Family Secrets
Crossing the Colour Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates...
by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.
Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist...
by Jeri Mills
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Typical of most communities after the Civil War, Nacogdoches�s African Americans had to repurpose their lives by building their own communities while they carved a life of survival first and progress second. The images in this book will tell the stories of the first churches and how they became the...
by Yolanda Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
The divisions within colonized groups are often manifestations of a system designed to perpetuate racism and discrimination. Hierarchical systems of oppression have historically been created to maintain confusion and division. Whats more, media images have often been used as tools to support a colonial...
Surrogate Suburbs
Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of...
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
The Black Image in the White Mind
Media and Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the...