African category: 8440 books
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
by Mattias Smångs
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures.
By broadening the scope of research problem formulation, staking out new theoretical-analytical tracks, and drawing upon recent innovations in statistical...
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN
First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929– ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon—known as Operation Frequent Wind—he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too....
by Benjamin Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black “chosenness” into plans and programs for black liberation. During the decades leading up the Civil War, the idea that God had marked black Americans...
by Letha A See
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
So many parts of society target citizens of color for violence--what can be done?
Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color examines violence from a structural perspective, including violence in prisons, schools and colleges, churches, homes, and within political/corporate structures.
This...
by Ahmed Ceegaag
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book will be talking about for-profit college admissions and their professors revolutions in the future. I would like to stop discrimination from for-profit colleges. And what is happening to innocent students like me? They have ruined the American Dreams of young people such as new immigrants...
Diamond
A Woman of the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This is a historical novel that is presented in the form of a memoir. The main focus is on an African American woman Diamond, who was part of the Great Migration in the 1940s. Diamond looks back at her life to share the hopes, dreams and struggles she and her husband Nathaniel had to move their family...
Troubling Beginnings
Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.
From an Immigrant’S Oven
A Casserole of Our Family’S Potted History from the Vantage Point of My Stomach
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Simple recipes, humorous anecdotes, and cartoon illustrations detail an African immigrant familys nomadic past. When Arthur Gardiner escaped the blood and mayhem of war-torn Africa thirty years ago and arrived in Canada, he brought with him rich memories of an eccentric family and their recipes. In...
To Any Foe
History of the Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment of African Americans in World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The Ninety-Eighth Engineer (General Service) Regiment, African American, embarked for North Africa in February 1943 and landed at Algeria. The regiment became nomadic and split up its battalions and companies to work in different locations, including port stewards, road construction, and clearing...
Challenging U.S. Apartheid
Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city’s first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless...
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press
Framing Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
African American girls are one of the United States' most endangered populations, yet meaningful explorations of the issues that impact their lives are almost nonexistent. In this riveting book, led by one of the African American community's best-known scholars, experts from across the nation explain...