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by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.
A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles...
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations...
by Lisa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
by Carter Godwin Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Documented with information from contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and academic journals, this discerning study vividly recounts decades of harassment and humiliation, hope and achievement.
David Ruggles
A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty...
A Member of the Club
Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every reader,...
The Black Woman
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers
When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays,...
by John W. Blassingame
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks...
"Myne Owne Ground"
Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed...
Israel on the Appomattox
A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong....
The Booker T. Washington Reader
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography; My Larger Education; Character Building; The Negro Problem
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would...
by Hannibal B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa�s historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This �Negro Wall Street� bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism swelled in sectors of white Tulsa, and white...