African American Studies category: 2787 books
Globalization and Race
Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing...
Mutiny on the Amistad
The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1997
This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of...
Medicating Race
Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines wide-ranging...
by Jennifer A. Garey
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
California was home to the one of the first Native American cavalries and one of the first African American cavalries, commonly known as the Buffalo Soldiers. It was in California where the country saw the last official military cavalry in operation. California Cavalry displays the history of cavalry...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
Fugitive Testimony
On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive...
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2000
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Ronald L. Baker
Lives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.
Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is...
Laughing Fit to Kill
Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the...
Hair Story
Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade...
Sexual Discretion
Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain...
Pawned Sovereignty
Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
"Pawned Sovereignty will be a collector's item, alongside Welsing's Isis Papers and Woodson's Mis-Education of the Negro." - Rolling Out Magazine
""Aharone's bold blueprint for black sovereignty sounds more like a long overdue prescription than an incendiary manifesto."...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
When We Imagine Grace
Black Men and Subject Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...