African American category: 7736 books
Black Women in Sequence
Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga,...
The Laughing Cry
An African Cock and Bull Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter...
Utopian Generations
The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally...
by Ronald E. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Texas is a Southern state, and in many ways, Houston is a typical Southern city. While Houston did not experience the types or degrees of racial violence found in other Southern cities during the Jim Crow era, black Houstonians nonetheless found themselves often relegated to the margins of society. For...
Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research...
by Malama Katulwende
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Fictional and Non-Fictional Essays - Passionate and often controversial: Over the last few years, Zambian writer Malama Katulwende (winner of the Julius Chongo Award 2006 for Best Creative Writing, at the Ngoma Awards ceremonies) has published more than forty articles for the website ukzambians.co.uk....
NOSY WHITE PEOPLE CALLING POLICE ON BLACK PEOPLE
WHITE AMERICA'S FEAR and SHAME
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
I understand America is a free country, however, that does not white people should feel free to harass and disrespect the life of African Americans. Nosy white people are making it a sick habit of calling police on African Americans for the sake of amusement and maybe to see police brutality. Nosy...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative "Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas" to an...
Santeria
African Spirits in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería* *community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful...
The Emancipation Proclamation
Three Views
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects:...
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and...
Africa's Armies
From Honor To Infamy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...