American category: 24906 books
The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro
Why Black Lives Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro is the introduction to a series of books for black American people to learn the omitted facts about their Heritage history. The books are intended to give a balanced overview of the true dynamics that is the core foundation of the United States and...
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh perspective on the many facets of sexism experienced...
Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations
Traditional and Contemporary Native American Recipes: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In this gloriously photographed book, renowned photographer and Native American–food expert Lois Ellen Frank, herself part Kiowa, presents more than 80 recipes that are rich in natural flavors and perfectly in tune with today's healthy eating habits. Frank spent four years visiting reservations...
The Color of the Land
Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives...
by Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This encouraging guide coaches African American and first-generation college students on strategies for maximizing their experiences and success on university campuses.
• Offers strategies to assist African American students with succeeding in college
• Reveals stories of African...
The Death-Bound-Subject
Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had...
Discourse and the Other
The Production of the Afro-American Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1986
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the...
by Terry Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars. Utilizing numerous interviews and extensive fieldwork, Terry Huffman shows how they define their roles and judge their achievements. He examines the ways they address...
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...
Exchanging Our Country Marks
The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which...
The Hidden God
Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The Hidden God revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought. By reaching as far back as the Calvinist arguments of the American Puritans and their struggle to know a "hidden God," this book brings American...
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what...
Carry Me Back
The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade....
by Lieutenant Colonel Lowell Steven Yarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The American Indian policy, formulated at the turn of the 19th century, significantly impacted the national military strategy. President Jefferson’s plan for Indian removal became the cornerstone for federal policy. Congress would bear the responsibility for crafting the nation’s Indian policies,...