African American Studies category: 2787 books
The Buffalo Soldiers
A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly...
by Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the twentieth century. The Jamaican-born African-American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers....
A Curse upon the Nation
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel...
Autobiography of a People
Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
by Austin Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.
“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part...
Game Changers
Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous...
Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...
The Hidden Cost of Being African American
How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Thomas Shapiro reveals how the lack of family assets--inheritance, home equity, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and other investments-- along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned...
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography...
Sisters in the Struggle
African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality.
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights...
He Talk Like a White Boy
Reflections of a Conservative Black Man on Faith, Family, Politics, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Actor and social commentator Joseph C. Phillips speaks powerfully about the topic of life as a conservative African-American actor, husband, father, and citizen. In today's political climate, with race such an issue, this collection of essays is not only timely, but thought provoking.
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George Henry White
An Even Chance in the Race of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. A North Carolina representative from 1897 to 1901, White was the last man of his race to serve in the Congress during...
The Hands of Peace
A Holocaust Survivor?s Fight for Civil Rights in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany, only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.
Marione moved first to New York and then to Washington, D.C. where, in 1960, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality, protesting discrimination...