African American Studies category: 2787 books
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
Blue Eyes on African-American History
A Learning Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Until Bayard Rustins lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation, which sponsors a pledge calling for liberty and justice for all.
The...
by Paul Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was...
Representing the Race
A New Political History of African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop...
Race Matters, Animal Matters
Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B....
by Jessie Carney Smith, Lean'tin Bracks, Linda T Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Celebrate the Achievements . . .The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History chronicles 400 years of African American history. This comprehensive resource explores the past, the progress, and the present of African Americans in four volumes, each building, complementing, and expanding on the...
African American Families Today
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book by two acclaimed scholars of race and ethnicity debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show...
Germans and African Americans
Two Centuries of Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences....
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own...
Contemporary Voices From The Margin
African Educators on African and American Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditionally, American educators and communities have looked to Europe and Asia for ideas for rethinking and reforming education for America’s diverse children. This book, Contemporary Voices from the Margin: African Educators on African and American Education, brings together new voices of diverse...
Chronicles of a Two-Front War
Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war...
Saints in Exile
The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1999
Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience,...
Psychology of Blacks
Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.
This text highlights the limitations of traditional psychological theories and approaches when applied to people of African descent....