African American Studies category: 2787 books
by Sean Joiner, Gerald Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Filled with remarkable vintage photographs, Black America: Augusta, Georgia captures the essence of the African-American heritage in this historic Southern community. The Garden City has produced a wide variety of intellectual and political pioneers, including a handful of educators who were instrumental...
Newspaper Wars
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive...
Tappin' at the Apollo
The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina “Salt” Evelyn and Jewel “Pepper” Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem’s Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl “Fatha”...
The Urban Racial State
Managing Race Relations in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of...
Taboo
Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they...
Julius Chambers
A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936–2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance...
The Agitator's Daughter
A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's...
by Sharon Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2000
Surviving slavery, Reconstruction, poverty, and the Civil Rights tensions of the twentieth century, Haywood County�s black community has done much to shape the identity of this historic West Tennessee county. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, highlights the county�s settlement,...
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner
Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on...
Angels in the Wilderness
Young and Black in New Orleans And Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
*As I read this wonderful book, I cried. I cried because someone loves the people of New Orleans enough to seek out the stories that are the lives of a few mirroring the lives of many. My friend, William Barnwell, has brought the skill of listening to a new level. One definition of the word listen...
More Than Chattel
Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1996
... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." —Drew Faust
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in...
Battling the Plantation Mentality
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the...
Mark My Words
A Christopher Family Novel Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Allan Beckley Christopher is a self-made, African-American multimillionaire.Starting out with nothing but family, very high intelligence, ambition and drive, he succeeded against the odds.He dealt with racism, discrimination and the naysayers, Black and white, who were convinced he would never make...
The Wilmington Ten
Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a...