African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Molefi Kete Asante, Daryl B. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of...
by Sunni Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
An examination of Black loyalty to the flag, this book looks at the views of Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson Sr., and many others. It reviews the response of the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter. The book discusses the loyalty of African Americans...
Within the Veil
Black Journalists, White Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism.
Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html
Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded African Americans in the mainstream media. While...
May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately...
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
Henry Frye
North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina...
by Beth Tompkins Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters,...
by Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence,...
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part
Love and Marriage in African America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's...
The Dream Is Lost
Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
The Pursuit of Happiness
Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters...
The End of Days
African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding...