African American category: 7736 books
The Preacher King
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1997
Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily...
by Peter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well...
From Victimization to Empowerment
The Challenge of African American Leadership the Need of Real Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
From Victimization to Empowerment Offers a historical analysis that speaks to unique role African people played in America development of power and wealth, and Maafa - The African Holocaust, which stripped us of our culture, names, language, identity, and our system of cosmogony etc.
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by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...
American Voudou
Journey into a Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave tradeis the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah,...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...
African Cherokees in Indian Territory
From Chattel to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free...
Alabama in Africa
Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of...
by Jan Batiste Adkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
People of African heritage have traveled to Monterey since the 1770s, when African Spaniard Alexo Nino, a ship's caulker, traveled with Fr. Junipero Serra to Monterey via the San Antonio. For centuries since Nino, black men and women migrated to the Monterey Bay area in search of a new life. In the...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
Queen of Bebop
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
Washington Post Best Book of 2017
Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year
Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of the Year
Booklist Top Ten Arts Book
Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan,...
by Joe Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
"Boldly suggests that cultural organizing shaped the trajectory and spirit of the Civil Rights Movement."--Journal of American Ethnic History "Street brings together many different cultural strands in this work and argues cogently that they were an important part of a movement that...
by benus adu poku
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
IntroductionThis is Book One of a trilogy with the same title. The sacrifice in the Sahara has a special place in the category of immensely touching and heart-palpitating suspense-filled stories that ravage the soul. It also provides ample insight into some of the hitherto undocumented perils,...
African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures
A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature, and culture of various American...