African category: 8440 books
Groping toward Democracy
African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those...
Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work...
Media Across the African Diaspora
Content, Audiences, and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions...
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...
For Jobs and Freedom
Race and Labor in America since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil War years did not guarantee equality, and African Americans from emancipation to the present have faced the seemingly...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
by Kevern Verney
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines:
* the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport,...
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own...
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...
In the Heart of Texas
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
• Fiction buyers in every category are predominantly female. • Women read more books than men, especially fiction. • Book groups consist almost entirely of women, and the recent proliferation of literary blogs are populated mainly by women. • The most likely person to read a book in any format...
by Tracey E. Hucks, Davíd Carrasco
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi’s personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an artist, religious leader, and founder of several African-influenced...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia.
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