African American Studies category: 2787 books
Louis Austin and the Carolina Times
A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press...
African Americans and Homeschooling
Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Despite greater access to formal education, both disadvantaged and middle-class black students continue to struggle academically, causing a growing number of black parents to turn to homeschooling. This book is an in-depth exploration of the motivations behind black parents’ decision to educate...
Reframing Randolph
Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
At
one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of
the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment
of America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black
America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights...
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora
Travelling Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award
With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black...
Philosophy of Race
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in...
The Deacons for Defense
Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their...
The Princess and the Prophet
The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
How the circuses, dance halls, and midways of the Gilded Age provided the cultural ferment and freedom that led to the creation of the Black Muslim movement in America.
Beyond the customary narratives of Gilded Age America lies a world of circuses, Wild West shows, and midways populated by...
by Ernest Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
The book offers an explicit explanation of Africans, and their transformational toils to America in sixteen nineteen. And their adaptability, based on chronological records of significant events, related to genetic heritage, concurring with current society. Based on reality (not) racism.
Education and Cultural Politics
Interrogating Idiotic Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education is a conceptualization of protest and resistance against the cultural politics of oppression and domination of people of African descent in the Caribbean and North America. It is also a theorization of their redemption from being victims...
Reparations
Pro and Con
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation--stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics. In this short, definitive work, Alfred L. Brophy, a leading expert on racial violence, traces the reparations issue...
Pathway to a Legacy of Dignity
An Open Letter to African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This book is meant to be a book with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The hope is that it will have merit as to how we can use the eleven chapter pathway so that all people can see us as people who have pride and dignity along with all of the other ethnicities that are looked up to in the diverse American tapestry.
Nation of Cowards
Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more—not less—about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama’s historic rise to the US presidency and the ever-increasing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while black fathers are less likely than white and Hispanic fathers to marry their child's mother, many continue to parent through cohabitation and visitation, providing caretaking, financial, and other in-kind...
Race Over Party
Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post–Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon...