African American category: 7736 books
by John A. Wright Sr., John A. Wright Jr., Curtis A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The city of St. Louis is known for its African American citizens and their many contributions to the culture within its borders, the country, and the world. Images of Modern America: African American St. Louis profiles some of the events that helped shape St. Louis from the 1960s to the present. Tracing...
by New York Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library.
"Indispensable for those interested in the African American experience....
African American Pioneers of Sociology
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2009
In African American Pioneers of Sociology, Pierre Saint-Arnaud examines the lasting contributions that African Americans have made to the field of sociology. Arguing that science is anything but a neutral construct, he defends the radical stances taken by early African American sociologists from accusations...
Flavor and Soul
Italian America at Its African American Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”...
A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams...
In the Heart of Texas
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
• Fiction buyers in every category are predominantly female. • Women read more books than men, especially fiction. • Book groups consist almost entirely of women, and the recent proliferation of literary blogs are populated mainly by women. • The most likely person to read a book in any format...
New Day Begun
African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights...
Becoming American
The African-American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and the world. Even less is known about the role of African peoples in the history of all humankind. Becoming American: The African-American Journey will open their eyes—and...
Saints in Exile
The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1999
Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience,...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
The Art of the African American Essay
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists...