African American Studies category: 2787 books
African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia
Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African American community. Experience the harrowing narratives of trials and triumph as Alexandria's African Americans helped to shape not only their hometown...
by Millicent Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
And yet, We still stand is the second book in the Move Mountain, African-American, single parent series. Book two takes you on a political, social and economic journey from Washington (DC) to Walmart; from the top of the heap to the bottom of the pit and from a strategic agenda of disenfranchisement...
by Kevern Verney
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines:
* the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport,...
The Games Black Girls Play
Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology
2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes....
The Bahá’í Faith and African American History
Creating Racial and Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in...
Black Neighbors
Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants...
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains,...
Bound For the Promised Land
African American Religion and the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s...
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings...
Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates...
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual...
Training Black Spirit
Ethics for African American Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Like all teens, African American teens find themselves wondering what they should or should not be doing and how they should behave toward each other -- only they often have no male role model in the home and negative models, like gang-banger, on the street. As they struggle to build their characters,...
The Black Book II
From Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The time has come for a realistic political dialogue between the American national minorities and the dominant Anglo-American ethny. The problematic that arises in what American presidents Clinton and Obama have repeatedly called a “one-nation one-state†political system is: how will the ...
Making Black Los Angeles
Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles...