African American Studies category: 2787 books
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The African American Presence in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street...
Patton's Panthers
The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others -- proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight...
How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic,...
African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Durham and Orange Counties have vibrant and active African American communities. Throughout the region's unjust past, generations have shown extraordinary strength and resolve. Floyd McKissick became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law after Thurgood...
Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's...
Portrait of a Scientific Racist
Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them -- an issue they termed the "negro problem." In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrected old proslavery...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is...
Words of Fire
An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term "feminism." And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses...
Justice While Black
Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Justice While Black is a must-read for every young black male in America-and for everyone else who cares about their survival and well-being. This is a first-of-its-kind essential guide for African-American families about how to understand the criminal justice system, and about why that system continues...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Shout Because You're Free
The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history,...
The Integration of the Pacific Coast League
Race and Baseball on the West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While Jackie Robinson’s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, the rest of Major League Baseball was slow to integrate while its Minor League affiliates moved faster. The Pacific Coast League (PCL), a Minor League...
Thursday Night Lights
The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the...
Shifting
The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves...