African American Studies category: 2787 books
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the...
Samurai among Panthers
Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and ’70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the...
American Babylon
Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland...
A Calculus of Color
The Integration of Baseball's American League
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges—population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim Crow era, when northern cities responded...
by Ed Pavlic, Dan Beachy-Quick
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American...
Conjugal Union
The Body, the House, and the Black American
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public...
In Media Res
Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically...
Creek Paths and Federal Roads
Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In Creek Paths and Federal Roads, Angela Pulley Hudson offers a new understanding of the development of the American South by examining travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states, from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians...
The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro
Why Black Lives Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro is the introduction to a series of books for black American people to learn the omitted facts about their Heritage history. The books are intended to give a balanced overview of the true dynamics that is the core foundation of the United States and...
The Strange History of the American Quadroon
Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and...
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn’t lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans’ political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they...
by Francesca Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Morgan...
Nat Turner
A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities...
Carry Me Back
The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade....