African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
by Ami R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African...
Downhome Gospel
African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary...
Belabored Professions
Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended...
Liberation Historiography
African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed....
A Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin...
After Redemption
Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than...
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound
Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890–1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of a segregated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919. It is also a study of contemporary approaches to community building during a time period of racial segregation and polarization....
by Tracey E. Hucks, Davíd Carrasco
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced...
The African American Experience in Crime Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and...
The River Flows On
Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American...
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction.
As demand for manpower grew during the...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...