African American category: 7736 books
Sites of Slavery
Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists...
Race Consciousness
Reinterpretations for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the...
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses.
• Offers strategies to assist African American students with succeeding in college
• Reveals stories of African...
Race and Meaning
The African American Experience in Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri....
by Robert T. Palmer, Andrew T. Arroyo, Alonzo Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Most experts agree that America's success depends on having a workforce that is highly prepared in STEM areas. Unfortunately, students of color continue to be underrepresented in higher education, and specifically, in completing degrees and entering careers within the STEM fields. This book supports...
A Spectacular Leap
Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with “a spectacular leap,” African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years. Yet it would be another twenty years before they would experience something akin...
Staging Faith
Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...
After Redemption
Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after freedom. It takes on the widely overlooked period between the end of Reconstruction and World War I to examine the sacred world of ex-slaves and their descendants living in the region more densely settled than...
The African American Experience in Crime Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and...
On My Brother's Shoulders
An African American Anthology and Tribute to People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
"In this insightful and enlightening book, E. Willa Simpson takes readers on a journey through the African American experience. Her version of history as retold in poetic terms is a refreshing tribute to countless African American leaders. Through her honesty, courage and the unique critical...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
Black Rage in New Orleans
Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. In New Orleans, crime, drug abuse, and murder were commonplace, and an...
Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl...