African American Studies category: 2787 books
Soul Babies
Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought...
Debating Race
with Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat, Dyson has always been ready to engage friends...
Reflections in the Dark Room
The Black Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
In Reflections in the Dark Room: The Black Essays, author Richard Kenyada examines the rich mosaic of contemporary African American culture from politics, race and war, to love, self-reliance and personal responsibility.With the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, Kenyadas...
Now Is the Time!
Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community-housing initiatives intended to revitalize...
President Lincoln's Recruiter
General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the service of the blacks, few reveal their impact. Lorenzo Thomas was one of the most exceptional people to serve in that war, but no biography of his life...
The Price of Defiance
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the...
Courting Communities
Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response within...
Black Firefighters and the FDNY
The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers...
Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0
New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "talented tenth." This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class,...
by Cajetan Iwunze
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
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The Criminalization of Black Children
Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet...
Talk with You Like a Woman
African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white...
Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self, 2nd Edition
The Iconic Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This book presents the extraordinary life and writings of Maya Angelou. It examines the changing viewpoints in her six autobiographies within the context of women's and African American autobiographies, with specific reference to the slave narrative and to contemporary fiction and film.
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Bud Fowler
Baseball's First Black Professional
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This is the biography of Bud Fowler (né John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner,...