African American category: 7736 books
Shifting
The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves...
A Voice from the South
By a Black Woman of the South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent...
The Second American Revolution
Closing the Four Basic Gaps of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The book will describe the major gaps that exist between African Americans and their white counterparts. The story is a historical presentation of decisions that were made by political and religious leaders dating back to the early 17th century that would eventually lead to the sad state of the modern...
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity
Celtic Soul Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black"...
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rock My Soul
Black People and Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people.
Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in...
Strength for Their Journey
5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and their parents cope with the myriad of social...
by Ernest H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Unlike the media would have you believe, most black males find great value in education. They want to believe that they have a special gift and that they can make a difference in the world. The problem is that they have ill feelings about how society has deprived them of the most qualified teachers...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
The House Servant's Directory
An African American Butler's 1827 Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
"In order to get through your work in proper time, you should make it your chief study to rise early in the morning; for an hour before the family rises is worth more to you than two after they are up."
So begins Robert Roberts' The House Servant's Directory, first published in 1827 and...
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
A Legacy Remembered
The African American Community of West Medford
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
West Medford, Massachusetts has been home to a thriving African American community, where families have lived for generations since the end of the Civil War. The stories of its residents have been fading as elders die and families move away. Most of the history of this neighborhood resides within...
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States...