African American Studies category: 2787 books
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
Democracy in Black
How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to...
Winning the Race
Beyond the Crisis in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.
Winning the Race examines the roots of...
Mysticism and Social Action
Lawrence Lecture and Discussions with Dr Howard Thurman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
With a foreword by Dr Howard Thurman's biographer Dr Luther E. Smith Jr this book contains the only surviving text of the Lawrence Lectures given by Dr Thurman at California's Berkeley Unitarian Church in 1978. As such, it is a unique record of the thinking of one of America's most celebrated African-American...
Once You Go Black
Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies
Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics...
Schooling the Freed People
Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative...
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
Redefining Black Power
Reflections on the State of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Obama's presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. Through interviews with black intellectuals, leaders and activists BBC journalist Griffith connects the dots with past civil rights and black power...
First Fruits of Freedom
The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.
Janette Thomas Greenwood...
Civil Rights Activism in Milwaukee
South Side Struggles in the '60s and '70s
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In the early 1960s, as members of Milwaukee's growing African American population looked beyond their segregated community for better jobs and housing, they faced bitter opposition from the real estate industry and union leadership. In an era marked by the friction of racial tension, the south side of...
Stokely Speaks
From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism....
by Danny E. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
From the terrible slave identity to the growing racism, marginalization and criticism in the educational, social, health, family and criminal justice systems, African American males have many reasons to shed their tears.
Crime and Racial Constructions
Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of...
Policing Black Bodies
How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect...