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Suicide and Eating Disordered Behavior Among Individuals of African Descent:
Acculturation and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This book examines the relationship between culture and psychopathology to determine if proposed psychological risk factors ( low ethnic identification and high level of acculturative stress) are predictive of several key mental health variables related to suicide and eating disorder behaviors (depression,...
by Christina Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife examines the complexities and realities of singleness in individual, familial, and communal contexts. These realities that are emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, and social...
Something All Our Own
The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Since 1990, Grant Hill has thrilled sports fans with his artistry on the basketball court, first as an All-American player at Duke University and then as a six-time NBA All-Star for the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic. During these years, Hill has amassed a collection of art by African Americans...
Servants of Allah
African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought...
The Land Was Ours
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
The Power of Black Music
Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1996
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition...
Slave Breeding
Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated...
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African...
Black Soldiers in Blue
African American Troops in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.
An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)...
Sweet Freedom's Plains
African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring,...
Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists...
by Sherrita Camp
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court...
Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half...