African American Studies category: 2787 books
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing...
Let’s Flip the Script
An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
An inspiring collection of personal essays about education, literacy, and freedom.
The Intimate University
Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping...
Live Long and Prosper
How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people?
Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing...
by Joel Freeman, Don B. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever taught about human historyBeginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people of African descent with the initial development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs its readers on a magnificent tour of...
Post-Soul Black Cinema
Discontinuities, Innovations and Breakpoints, 1970-1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the American...
Moving the Rock
Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s. As members of a small storefront church in central Seattle, these women—grandmothers, mothers, daughters—lean on their faith and church...
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
Written By Himself
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in...
Black Lies, White Lies
The Truth According to Tony Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
PBS television commentator and syndicated radio talk-show host Tony Brown has been called an "out-of-the-box thinker" and, less delicately, and "equal opportunity ass kicker." Those who attempt to pigeonhole him do so at their own peril. This journalist, media commentator, self-help...
Gateway to Equality
Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the "Gateway City" continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these...
A Sporting Chance
Achievements of African-Canadian Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country’s more tolerant culture in race relations. Yet as this story of African-Canadian participation in sports demonstrates, the record is far more troubling. In reality, Canada’s record in matters of race was a disturbing blend of occasional...
St. Louis
Disappearing Black Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Since the founding of St. Louis, African Americans have lived in communities throughout the area. Although St. Louis� 1916 �Segregation of the Negro Ordinance� was ruled unconstitutional, African Americans were restricted to certain areas through real estate practices such as steering and red lining....
I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now
Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional...
Veiled Visions
The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities. Atlanta's black residents fought back and repeatedly defended their neighborhoods from white...