African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Quintard Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
"This is an enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. You finish it understanding how integral a part blacks were of the making of the West and, indeed, America." — David Nicholson, Washington Post
A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In...
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
Is Marriage for White People?
How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution.
Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry.
That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality:...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
by John A. Wright Sr., John A. Wright Jr., Curtis A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The city of St. Louis is known for its African American citizens and their many contributions to the culture within its borders, the country, and the world. Images of Modern America: African American St. Louis profiles some of the events that helped shape St. Louis from the 1960s to the present. Tracing...
African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students
An Encyclopedia for Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day. This encyclopedia provides accessible entries on key elements of this long history, including folklore originally derived from African cultures that have survived...
by New York Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library.
"Indispensable for those interested in the African American experience....
African American Pioneers of Sociology
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2009
In African American Pioneers of Sociology, Pierre Saint-Arnaud examines the lasting contributions that African Americans have made to the field of sociology. Arguing that science is anything but a neutral construct, he defends the radical stances taken by early African American sociologists from accusations...
A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams...
New Day Begun
African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
New Day Begun presents the findings of the first major research project on black churches’ civic involvement since C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya’s landmark study The Black Church in the African American Experience. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights...
Becoming American
The African-American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and the world. Even less is known about the role of African peoples in the history of all humankind. Becoming American: The African-American Journey will open their eyes—and...
Overcoming the Odds
Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding...