African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Lorena M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Storytelling is alive and well in the 21st Century. A good Fable or Fairy-tale can still hold its own in an era of DVDs, Play Stations and Cyberspace. Just imagine reading a passage in one of these stories that is so vivid that you can relate to a time and place never experience, yet, draw an association...
Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history. An overview of major biographical figures and history-making events is followed by a deeper look at the development...
by Meg Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing Gates's life from his West Virginia birth, the book follows him through his undergraduate education at Yale and then to Cambridge, where he became the first...
by Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Jefferson County can proudly claim a large number of firsts when it comes to African Americans in national history. The raid to free slaves that served as a catalyst for the Civil War was led by abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry. The first man wounded in the rebellion was Heyward Shepherd, a free...
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
Race and Meaning
The African American Experience in Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri....
by Thomas J. Davis Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
One of every five Americans at the nation's beginning was an African American—a fact that underscores their importance in U.S. growth and development. This fascinating study moves from Africans' early contacts with the Americas to African Americans' 21st-century presence, exploring their role in...
by Robert T. Palmer, Andrew T. Arroyo, Alonzo Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Most experts agree that America's success depends on having a workforce that is highly prepared in STEM areas. Unfortunately, students of color continue to be underrepresented in higher education, and specifically, in completing degrees and entering careers within the STEM fields. This book supports...
African Diaspora and the Metropolis
Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North...
Black Nationalism in the New World
Reading the African-American and West Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
From nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism...
W. E. B. DuBois's Exhibit of American Negroes
African Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” This quote is among the most prophetic in American history. It was written by W. E. B. DuBois for the Exhibition of American Negroes displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. They are words whose force echoed throughout the...
Disposable Heroes
The Betrayal of African American Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
For many soldiers, the end of military service signals a cruel and new beginning. Disposable Heroes illuminates the challenges facing many veterans, particularly African Americans. Rather than finding military service to be a path to equality and upward mobility, these veterans fight just to survive....
An African Republic
Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality,...