African American category: 7736 books
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
Chaotic Justice
Rethinking African American Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship....
by Ersula Knox Odom
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtually invisible in the eyes of history. Tampa�s population exploded during the early 1900s, and the building boom universally required the skills and talents...
The Land Was Ours
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
by Tim Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the men and women who created seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for...
by Lorena M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Storytelling is alive and well in the 21st Century. A good Fable or Fairy-tale can still hold its own in an era of DVDs, Play Stations and Cyberspace. Just imagine reading a passage in one of these stories that is so vivid that you can relate to a time and place never experience, yet, draw an association...
Black Soldiers in Blue
African American Troops in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.
An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history. An overview of major biographical figures and history-making events is followed by a deeper look at the development...
by Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Jefferson County can proudly claim a large number of firsts when it comes to African Americans in national history. The raid to free slaves that served as a catalyst for the Civil War was led by abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry. The first man wounded in the rebellion was Heyward Shepherd, a free...
Theology for a Violent Age
Religious Beliefs Crippling African American Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Any politician or pundit will agree: we live in a violent and dangerous age. Our pent-up anger and rage fills our households and spills over into our neighborhoods and streets, leaving African American families who live in poverty and with limited capability to ward off shame and self-contempt as...
American Africans in Ghana
Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled...
In Search of the Blues
A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers...
Their Highest Potential
An African American School Community in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North...