African American category: 7736 books
Race and Renaissance
African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s,...
The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society...
Yes, I Am Your Brother
Understanding the Indigenous African American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Muslims and African Americans are the two most misunderstood groups in America today, yet both groups have been a part of American life from its beginning. Today, it is the African American that most represents the aspirations of both groups. They are a new peoplea people who have overcome a history...
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families. Complete with numerous exercises,...
by Jack Darrell Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military—it would...
Frankie and Johnny
Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of "Frankie and Johnny" became one of America's most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie...
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women
African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950–1975
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950–1975 challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women who joined the Original Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights-Black Power...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W.E.B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic...
Untold Glory
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier,...
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied...
Working Cures
Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.
Fett shows how enslaved men and women drew on African precedents to develop a view...
The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....
Black Chicago's First Century
1833-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements...
Hidden in the Mix
The African American Presence in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street...