African American Studies category: 2787 books
We Fish
The Journey to Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2003
We Fish is the tale of a father and son's shared dialogue in poetry and in prose, memoir and reflection, as they delight in their time spent fishing while considering the universal challenge of raising good children. Their story and their lesson have the power to teach today's young African American...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
Amiri Baraka
The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential...
A Luminous Brotherhood
Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the...
Embracing Sisterhood
Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
With this purported new 'era of high-profile, mega successful, black women who are changing the face of every major field worldwide' and growing socioeconomic diversity among black women as the backdrop, Embracing Sisterhood seeks to determine where contemporary black women's ideas of black womanhood...
The Room
A Racial Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
THE ROOM: A Racial Journey is an autobiographical account of a southern white man’s fifty-year journey to racial understanding.
After being constantly exposed to racist Jim Crow mentality from childhood to his early adolescence, he joins the Army. After his basic and training...
This Ain't Chicago
Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African...
Between Father and Son
An African-American Fable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Thirteen-year-old Jordan Garrison is at a crossroads. He's just about to enter high school, and his biggest worries are his new bottom-of-the-totem-pole status as an incoming freshman and his father's constant lectures about becoming a man. Growing further apart from his younger siblings—precocious...
by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies....
Hung
A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Following in the footsteps of such bestselling, taboo-breaking books as Randall Kennedy’s Nigger and J. L. King’s On the Down Low**,** Hung brings a topic previously discussed only in intimate settings out into the open. In a brilliant, multilayered look at the pervasive belief that African American...
Divine Callings
Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One of the unique aspects of the religious profession is the high percentage of those who claim to be “called by God” to do their work. This call is particularly important within African American Christian traditions. Divine Callings offers a rare sociological examination of this markedly understudied...
First and Ten Team Mentoring
A Unique Systematic Approach to Assist Teachers, Mentors and Parents to Motivate and Encourage Students to Achieve
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The First and Ten Mentoring Program is based on a football metaphor that is infused into the academic and social setting. It encourages and empowers students to collaborate through a team effort. This unique program helps build self-esteem, especially with African American Males and other youth experiencing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Despite examples set by successful black men in all walks of life, the truth remains that a disproportionate number of black boys and young men underperform at school, suffer from PTSD, and, too often, find themselves on a pathway to jail. The two-volume The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents...
by Natalie Masuoka
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States. Rather than characterize multiracial Americans as a "new" population, this book argues that instead we should view them as individuals...