African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Rolonda D. Teal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
From 1722 to the present, thousands of people of African descent have occupied the region that today encompasses Natchitoches Parish. For almost 300 years, African Americans have made significant contributions to the area�s economic and socialdevelopment. In Natchitoches Parish, the lives of some of...
by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad songs capture the feelings of their creators perfectly; of crushed hopes, keen sorrow and a dull daily...
by Eliza Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe...
Unfinished Business
Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and specifically apart from images of, and works by and about...
Thunder of Freedom
Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake...
by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
From the author of Daily Cornbread, Seven Soulful Secrets will motivate women to become not just better than they are but the best they can be.
In a tone that is as encouraging and comforting as your favorite quilt, veteran journalist and NiaOnline editor in chief Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows...
by Walter D. Greason
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
T?he struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to all Americans. In the twentieth century, this story of triumph over injustice inspired the spread of democracy around the world. From the villages of Eastern Europe to the cities of Asia and Africa, people have found new strength,...
Mississippi
The Closed Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurrection. It is written by a Mississippian who is a historian, and who, on September 30, 1962, witnessed the long night of riot that exploded...
Black Marxism
The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that...
Black Male Frames
African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy...
Baseball Under Siege
The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In 1961, when the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, for spring training, neither team had any idea that a feisty physician was about to turn its world upside down.
To Major League Baseball, Dr. Ralph Wimbish was just a black homeowner able to house...
Better than the Best
Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become...
Seizing the New Day
African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
"Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written.... an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings,...
by Dennis A. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred....