African American category: 7736 books
by Connie Briscoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
In the sprawling homes and upscale townhouses of the exclusive, largely African American Prince George’s County, the lives of five women intersect–and the secrets, scandals, loves, and losses that ensue are par for the course where power, beauty, and wealth reside.
Barbara is the most...
by Grace Cornish, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, relationship expert Dr. Grace Cornish writes a lively, practical, provocative guide for black women everywhere who want to shed the duds and find the studs who will treat them with respect.
According to Dr. Cornish, six out of every ten black...
Loving Her
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A groundbreaking novel of two very different women, one black and one white, and a remarkable love threatened by prejudice, rage, and violence
A struggling African American musician, Renay married Jerome Lee when she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Yet even before their daughter,...
Voices in Our Blood
America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis **
Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...
Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time
The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. It still exists today. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood,...
The Ebony Exodus Project
Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion-and Others Should Too
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Black women are the single most religious demographic in the United States, yet they are among the poorest, least educated, and least healthy groups in the nation. Drawing on the author's own past experience as an evangelical minister and her present work as a secular counselor and researcher, The...
by Ijeoma Oluo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race....
Letters to a Young Brother
MANifest Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students...
Richard Wright
A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in...
A Dreadful Deceit
The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for...
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
Working While Black
The Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This guide offers practical suggestions for black Americans to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every...
by Lisa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.