African American category: 7736 books
Slave Counterpoint
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these...
by Devora E. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
African Americans have heavily contributed to and shaped the unique and vibrant Rutherford County in middle Tennessee. Located 30 miles southeast of Nashville, Rutherford County is at the state�s geographical center. This area is home to the Stones River National Battlefield, a national park that was...
by Michael L. Ondaatje
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American...
Writing on the Wall
Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal
His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter, revolutionary-his...
by Tommie D. Boudreaux, Alice M. Gatson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In the 19th century, Galveston shores were a gateway for immigrants to Texas and destinations beyond. Slaves, the forced immigrants, were brought to Galveston as property for sale. The largest slave trade operation in Galveston was implemented by Jean Laffite, a pirate. His slave trade business began...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished...
The Color of Fascism
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his...
by Kenneth M. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton describes...
Integrating the Orioles
Baseball and Race in Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The struggle to integrate the Baltimore Orioles mirrored the fight for civil rights in Baltimore. The Orioles debuted in 1954, the same year the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation. As Baltimore experienced demonstrations, white flight and a 1968 riot, team integration came slowly....
Dispossession
Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for...
Southscapes
Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.
Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest...
The Hungered One
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
“A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people” (The New York Times Book Review).
Award-winning playwright Ed Bullins received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play The Taking of Miss Janie, and is also...