American category: 24906 books
Radical Spiritual Motherhood
Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this cutting-edge work, Rosetta R. Haynes explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century female African American itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upon religion and the material conditions of their lives to fashion powerful personas that enabled them...
Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity
The Gerald Vizenor Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher Teuton rightfully calls him "one of the most innovative and brilliant American Indian writers" today." With more than 40 books of fiction,...
Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl...
American Indianology 101
A profile of Today's American Indian population, tribes and reservations.
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The primary Mission of this book is to help educate the public about American Indians by providing information about today's population, tribes and reservations. Secondly, to help those millions of American Indians who have become diconnected from their tribes, to reconnect through genealogy research.
The Black Book II
From Hajji Malik Al-Shabazz to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The time has come for a realistic political dialogue between the American national minorities and the dominant Anglo-American ethny. The problematic that arises in what American presidents Clinton and Obama have repeatedly called a “one-nation one-state†political system is: how will the ...
Psychology of Blacks
Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
For courses in Introduction to Psychology, African American Psychology, African American Studies, Multicultural Counseling and Cross Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy.
This text highlights the limitations of traditional psychological theories and approaches when applied to people of African descent....
by Joe Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
"Boldly suggests that cultural organizing shaped the trajectory and spirit of the Civil Rights Movement."--Journal of American Ethnic History "Street brings together many different cultural strands in this work and argues cogently that they were an important part of a movement that...
by Thomasena Martin-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
This collection of poems is a glimpse of a world as seen through the eyes of a person who has questioned the accepted definition of both African American / Native American men and women and how they relate to each other trying to fulfill the broken dreams and their search for identity. Let Me Tell...
by Dexter Marks
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Physco Jihad, is the adventure of an American innocent who blunders into the middle of an Islamist uprising in West Africa. Dizzy Banks, an American contract employee, must survey a local population in rural West Africa, in an area where increasing political instability has thrown strategic American...
by benus adu poku
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
IntroductionThis is Book One of a trilogy with the same title. The sacrifice in the Sahara has a special place in the category of immensely touching and heart-palpitating suspense-filled stories that ravage the soul. It also provides ample insight into some of the hitherto undocumented perils,...
Race and Upward Mobility
Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle...
THE WAY OF AN INDIAN
Western Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
“The Way of an Indian” is one of the few books that look at the colonial expansion of American wild west through the eyes of a Native Indian. The book faithfully captures their spiritual beliefs, agency and speech to show what it was like to be the original inhabitants of a land that was taken...
This American Autopsy
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2019
In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist José Antonio Rodríguez encapsulates the experiences of an artist and citizen caught between two worlds. At once deeply personal and thematically expansive, these works offer a bracing look at the darker impulses of...
by John Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“AN ENJOYABLE READ . . . renders an anxious excitement as the undeserved hardships of a single American family unfold. . . . Truly, a story with a viewpoint and tradition not often told: that of the American Indian.”
—Chief Hatcher of the Waccamaw Tribe
“PANTHER IN THE SUN is a powerful...