African American Studies category: 2787 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history. Contrary to prevailing ideas at the time, which held that African culture disappeared quickly under slavery and that black Americans had little group...
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended." --Library Journal"This volume makes possible the study of the rise of black music in the...
A Refugee from His Race
Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other...
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,...
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...
Soul Food
The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and Scholarship
Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association
In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition....
by John Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An Excellent Resource for Black History Month...OVER TWO HUNDRED ENTRIES from more than seventy African-Americans.Among those whose writings or quotations are included:- Richard Allen - Martin Luther King III- George Washington Carver -...
Constructing the Black Masculine
Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones—Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate...
Brother Bill
President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!”
—Cornel West
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by The Kansas African American Museum
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The African American community of Wichita is as old as the city itself, dating back to early pioneers, cowboys, and business figures. Once relatively integrated, Wichita became more segregated as the 20th century unfolded. In response, African Americans developed a lively neighborhood downtown with its...
by Kwame A. Insaidoo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
The African has been separated from his Black American brothers and sisters since the dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Millions of Africans were forcibly ejected from their native soil, separated from their loved ones-their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and torn from the lives they once...
Against Wind and Tide
The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black...