African American category: 7736 books
Making Black Los Angeles
Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles...
The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
Wounds of the Spirit
Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters...
by Vorris L. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
From the Kitchen to the Parlor
Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.
African American Women with Incarcerated Mates
The Psychological and Social Impacts of Mass Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
After four decades of mass incarceration in the U.S., the disproportionate number of black men in prisons has contributed to an epidemic of black women struggling to support fragile families. Yet the literature is scant on how African American women are affected by the imprisonment of their partners....
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book describes the contributions of twenty-two educators and events that have shaped the field of education, often receiving little to no public recognition, including: Edmonia Godelle Highgate, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Selena Sloan Butler, Alonzo Aristotle Crim, Sabbath Schools, and African American...
Game of Privilege
An African American History of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United...
by Lindsey R. Swindall
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Lindsey R. Swindall examines the historical and political context of acclaimed African American actor Paul Robeson's three portrayals of Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom and the United States. These performances took place in London in 1930, on Broadway in 1943, and in Stratford-upon-Avon...
Hoodlums
Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes—individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have...
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament....
The End of Black Studies
Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives....
Every Nation Has Its Dish
Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American...
by Aaliyah Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
African American Erotic Drama Bundle
How Do You Want It?
When Tamika is confronted by her violent ex-boyfriend Malik, she feels like there's no way out. With no family or friends to turn to, she's completely at his mercy and in the hood people just look away when he abuses her.
However,...