African American category: 7736 books
by Young Jean Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
“A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye.”—Charles...
Barracoon
The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
New York Times Bestseller • Amazon's Best History Book of the Year 201 • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s...
by Claude Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.
Published during a literary era marked...
The Conversation
How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In his first book for adults, New York Times bestselling author Hill Harper invites you to join the Conversation: an honest dialogue about the breakdown of African-American relationships. For generations African Americans have turned to their families in times of need – but now, this proud and strong...
by Nick Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
White people of America, we know you've got it rough.
Sure, black men and women have been through four hundred years of slavery, oppression, murder, and watching white college students try to dance. But now that it's hip to have black friends, white people aren't sure how to go about it. And...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of the men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first...
by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.
A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks...
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
**Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 **
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response...
by J. Blaine Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation to prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized...
Why We Make Movies
Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A sparkling collection of interviews with African American directors and producers.
Bringing together more than thirty candid conversations with filmmakers and producers such as Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, Julie Dash, Charles Burnett, and Robert Townsend, Why We Make Movies delivers a cultural...
Osage and Settler
Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of,...
A Small Nation of People
W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America
Enough
The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents,...