African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished...
From Generation to Generation
A Commemorative Collection of African American Millenial Sermons from the Festival of Preachers 2010-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This commemorative collection of sermons by young African American preachers is anchored in gratitude to the strong and deeply-rooted Black religious experience. While several studies speak to the disillusionment of millennials towards formalized religion, Generation to Generation shows a generation...
The Color of Fascism
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his...
by Kenneth M. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton describes...
Integrating the Orioles
Baseball and Race in Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The struggle to integrate the Baltimore Orioles mirrored the fight for civil rights in Baltimore. The Orioles debuted in 1954, the same year the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation. As Baltimore experienced demonstrations, white flight and a 1968 riot, team integration came slowly....
Dispossession
Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats...
Black Bodies, White Gazes
The Continuing Significance of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George Yancy...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...
by George Francis Dow
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The long, grim story of the slave trade is a tragic historical narrative. This darkest and most heartless era in African-American history saw millions of Africans kidnapped and sold into bondage in the West Indies, the American colonies, and later, the United States.
This history is recalled firsthand...
Reminiscences of an Active Life
The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His political career began in 1869 with his appointment as justice of the peace. Within the year, he was elected to the Mississippi...
Gender and Jim Crow
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the...
Without Regard to Race
The Other Martin Robison Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...