African American Studies category: 2787 books
A New Deal for All?
Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
In A New Deal for All? Andor Skotnes examines the interrelationships between the Black freedom movement and the workers' movement in Baltimore and Maryland during the Great Depression and the early years of the Second World War. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle,...
by Aubrey W. Bonnett, Calvin B. Holder, Fitzroy André Baptiste
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and...
Black Ball 9
New Research in African American Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre–Negro League organization and...
by Daniel Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Negro League baseball teams played in New York City's major-league stadiums and basketball clubs shared the bill with jazz bands at late night casinos....
The Life and Death of Gus Reed
A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and...
Growing Up with the Country
Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants
Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s...
by Jarik Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
In The Fragile Mind, Dr. Conrad not only provides insight into what daily life is like for African Americans and individuals who are poor, he offers an innovative approach to overcoming these challenges based on what scientists have uncovered about the human brain - its brilliance, as well as its...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Comprehensive, well-documented 1896 classic draws upon a wealth of primary source materials to examine the South's plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much else.
Connection Point
A Different Version of African American Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Connection point is a folklore that tells about who the Nig!?r is and where the people known by that name came from. How important is a name to a people? A name is a very powerful vehicle that identifies the people or their tribes. It gives us a history of the people. In essence, we come to understand...
Measuring Manhood
Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American students’ insufficient “hereditary background” for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start.Melissa...
by Blakk Jack Samm
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
The book is called When We Were Black. I came up with the book, or the book came up to me several years ago. It was during one Christmas holiday spent time with children and grandchildren, while I was relating to my familys diverse tree, when one of my daughters informed me that her children did not...
A Regiment of Slaves
The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action in the eastern theater of operations from late 1863 to mid-1865. The regiment—drawn largely from freedmen and liberated slaves in the Middle Atlantic and New England states—served in Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s Army...
Road of Ash and Dust
Awakening of a Soul in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Unaware that hunger, sickness and deprivation were awaiting him, a young idealist leaves the United States and embarks on a spiritual journey to West Africa. Repeatedly challenged by a world beyond his understanding and thrown into harsh, critical self-reflections, he is repulsed by the image of himself...
Generations
A Commentary on the History of the African Immigrants and Their American Descendents
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
The arrival of those twenty Africans, though they were not the first Africans in America, represented the vanguard of an institution and an industry that would, for 246 years, survive in the unkempt median lying between the merging lanes of the sociopolitical practices of the past and the oncoming...