American category: 24906 books
Native Roots
How the Indians Enriched America
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
"Well written, imagery-ridden...A tale of what was, what became, and what is today regarding the Indian relation to the European civilization that 'grafted' itself onto this ancient system.'" (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World...
We are an Indian Nation
A History of the Hualapai People
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against indigenous people of the Colorado River basin was equally devastating. In less than twenty-five years after first encountering Anglos, the Hualapais had lost more than half their population...
Shaping the Future of African American Film
Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In Hollywood, we hear, it’s all about the money. It’s a ready explanation for why so few black films get made—no crossover appeal, no promise of a big payoff. But what if the money itself is color-coded? What if the economics that governs film production is so skewed that no film by, about,...
Striving for Perfection
Developing Professional Black Officers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The success of todays military officers rests squarely on the shoulders of the men and women of the past. In Striving for Perfection, author Gerald D. Curry, a former US Airforce Colonel, reaches back through the annals of history to help todays professional military officers navigate a successful...
After Human Rights
Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity...
by Dan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks...
Depredation and Deceit
The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos...
The Politics of Richard Wright
Perspectives on Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
by Bernice L. McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel, Glorious. Bernice McFadden's fully realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett....
The Chinaberry Tree
A Novel of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent,...
American Hill
THE SOCIAL HILL SERIES, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
American Hill is the third and last installment in The Social Hill Series by Jason Hill. Following the adventures of Tony after he loses his family, we find him now in a new place with a new love. Still, all is not ideal...he faces legal troubles and continued hardship. His children, back in Texas,...
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
by Omar Tyree
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
On the 1st Episode of "The American Disease" - "Full Blown & Fatal" - celebrated New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree shocked the world with brand new and exciting characters. Now with Episode 2: "Survival of the Fittest" the plot thickens as we find out who's...
by Clara Villarosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Celebrating notable African Americans, this inspirational and thoughtprovoking collection of quotations covers a wide range of African-American heroes, from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall to Jackie Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald to Harriet Tubman, Toni Morrison to Jesse Owens,...