African American category: 7736 books
Recipes for Respect
African American Meals and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets.
From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born...
African Americans in Glencoe
The Little Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The village of Glencoe has a proud history of early African American settlement. In recent years, however, this once thriving African American community has begunto disperse. Robert Sideman, a thirty-year Glencoe resident, relates this North Shore suburb�s African American history through fond remembrances...
The Product of Our Souls
Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American...
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group...
Soul Food
The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship
Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association
In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition....
by John Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An Excellent Resource for Black History Month...OVER TWO HUNDRED ENTRIES from more than seventy African-Americans.Among those whose writings or quotations are included:- Richard Allen - Martin Luther King III- George Washington Carver -...
Brother Bill
President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!”
—Cornel West
As...
by The Kansas African American Museum
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The African American community of Wichita is as old as the city itself, dating back to early pioneers, cowboys, and business figures. Once relatively integrated, Wichita became more segregated as the 20th century unfolded. In response, African Americans developed a lively neighborhood downtown with its...
Against Wind and Tide
The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black...
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
Race for Citizenship
Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion...
by Lee D. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating...
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...