African American Studies category: 2787 books
Crushed!
Navigating Africa’S Tortuous Quest for Development – Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CRUSH-ED is not another whining story about the African experience, even though the title may lead in that direction. The title is really an acronym for the strategies that Africa (the sub-Saharan region in particular), must adopt if it is not to face extinction in the medium to long term. The book...
My Triumph over Prejudice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the...
by Benjamin Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
Glynn County's African-American citizenry has left an indelible mark on the history of Georgia as well as the nation. Such notable figures as Dr. Charles Wesley Buggs, renowned microbiologist; Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender; and Marilyn Moore Brown, an internationally praised...
by James V. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.
by Marie Barber Adams, Deborah Scott Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Lower Richland County encompasses approximately 360 square miles in the heart of South Carolina�s geographic center. The Wateree River cradles it to the east, and the Congaree River borders the south and southwest. Virginia settlers discovered this rich land over 250 years ago. They became wealthy...
by Vennie Deas-Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2000
South Carolina�s capital city enjoys a strong African-American presence, one that has had considerable influence on the growth and development of Columbia�s commerce and culture since the city�s creation in the late 1700s. The challenges of the antebellum South, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights...
The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years
Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...
True Places
A Lowcountry Preacher, His Church, and His People
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
True Places is an emotionally charged photographic documentary of the lives of evangelical pastor Floyd Knowlin and his close-knit African American congregations who live, work, and worship in a rural stretch of coastal South Carolina. For more than a decade photographer Stanley F. Lanzano has immersed...
Archives of the Black Atlantic
Reading Between Literature and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary...
Performing Black Masculinity
Race, Culture, and Queer Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds...
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop
Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out of date. Hip hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of hip-hop to illuminate how race...
The Real Hiphop
Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youths moved their already renowned open-mic nights from the Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts center in Leimert Park. The local freestyle of articulate,...
by Richard J. Reddick, Charles V. Willie
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Charles Willie and Richard Reddick's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its publication in 1976. Using a case study approach, Willie and Reddick show the varieties of the Black family experience and how...