African American category: 7736 books
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of...
The Quest for Citizenship
African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity in the United States by comparing educational experiences in Kansas between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many to be the...
African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke
Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives...
Black Elephants in the Room
The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic? Are they Uncle Toms or sellouts, serving as traitors to their race? What is it really like to be a black person in the Republican Party?
Black...
African & American
West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet...
African Americans and Standardized Tests
The Real Reason for Low Test Scores
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
With a surprisingly honest and hard-hitting approach, this scathing indictment of the modern black family postulates that a lack of appreciation for literacy in the African American household is the true cause of low scores on today's standardized tests. Arguing that television, video games, rap...
African Americans and Mass Media
A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing media monopolies and...
African Americans by the Numbers: Understanding and Interpreting Statistics on African American Life
African Americans by the Numbers: Understanding and Interpreting Statistics on African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Provides an invaluable source for students as well as academics on the current condition of African Americans, highlighting disparities throughout an array of social, economic, and political areas.
• Clearly outlines the condition of African Americans in relation to other races and ethnic...
Suicide and Eating Disordered Behavior Among Individuals of African Descent:
Acculturation and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This book examines the relationship between culture and psychopathology to determine if proposed psychological risk factors ( low ethnic identification and high level of acculturative stress) are predictive of several key mental health variables related to suicide and eating disorder behaviors (depression,...
African American Heritage Super Pack #2
Courage and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and...
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This ironically titled tale by an influential figure in African-American literature explores the tragic effects of color prejudice and self-hatred. Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1933 novel paints a haunting portrait of internalized racism with its depiction of a domineering mother whose determination for...
by the late Nathan Irvin Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2007
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword...
Household Workers Unite
The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.
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In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing,...