African American & Black Studies

With the admittance in 1948 of Silas Hunt to the University of Arkansas Law School, USA, the university became the first southern public institution of higher education to officially desegregate without being required to do so by court order. The process...

A trio of short dramas set in the South and spanning 1968 to the present, King Me features compelling characters and relevant themes that examine our ongoing understanding of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bound by Blood, #communicate, and Paradox in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816552566Author Karina AlmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of African Americans in Chicago's political economy, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy...

     "Plant's study is sorely         needed at this point in the evolving critical assessment of Hurston. It         is a paradigm for the study of individual African American women writers."         -- Alice Deck, University of Illinois at...

"BookMarks is a moving and revelatory memoir... a work of fiercely intelligent scholarship." - Susan Larson,  "Erudite and emotional in turns, [BookMarks] is full of truths that appeal to the head and the heart." - Charlotte News Observer" What are you...

Fourth in the University of Arkansas Press series in Black Community Studies, this examination of the black community of Savannah, Georgia, during the antebellum and the Civil War periods is a groundbreaker. It begins in 1788 with the founding of...

During the summer of 1967, race riots swept across U.S. cities. Detroit was the scene of one of the worst of these. The State of Black Michigan is a landmark volume that investigates how, since 1967, Michigan's black population has changed, how its...

Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm's life spans the civil rights era like an index of America's racial anxiety. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles...

During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at...

The movement to add a multiracial category to the 2000 U.S. Census provoked unprecedented debates about race.The effort made for strange bedfellows. Republicans like House Speaker Newt Gingrich and affirmative action opponent Ward Connerly took up the...

Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935166160Author Dr Terrence J RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Civil Rights movements all clashed with local and state politics when an alliance of black students and...

Following the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged in African-American popular culture. Pop icons such as Mohammad Ali, James Brown and Pam Grier projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected the...

Are the views of Latinos and African Americans under represented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John D. Griffin and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871541581Author Obie ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871541512Author Frank D. BeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 437Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

Sober news reports of a U.S. Army convoy rumbling across the bridge into Little Rock cannot overpower this intimate, powerful, personal account of the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Showing what it felt like to be one of those nine...

Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that is being felt around the rich world. Guardian...

This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three...

Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the political history of black women in the United States by placing them "at the center of our thinking." The book explores how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355117Author Andrea RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781435172838Author W E B Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Union Square & Co.Publisher Union Square & Co.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781984801203Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625345141Author James SmethurstFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

An investigation of one city's emergence as a safe haven for fugitive slavesBook InformationISBN 9781558497603Author Kathryn GroverFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252006906Author Kenneth L. KusmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

A complete text of this key document in the history of Western racial thought. The book includes a substantial biography of Gregoire and an analysis of the historical context in which he wrote and the impact of his work.Book InformationISBN...

As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to the present of that divide. He argues that in the United States, the rise and decline of...

Uses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-black townsBook InformationISBN 9781592132898Author Tiffany Ruby PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871547743Author Sandra SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

Unearthing the writings of African American Communists and the forgotten promise of radical politics through primary sourcesBook InformationISBN 9781439908594Author Walter T. HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Temple University Press,U.S...

Black college presidents in the era of segregation walked a tightrope. They were expected to educate black youth without sufficient state and federal funding. Yet in the African American community they were supposed to represent power and influence and...

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the African American community that has often been ignored or distorted: black Communists.Book InformationISBN...

How does democracy fare when the people governed insist they live in a world with witches? If the government of a people afflicted by witchcraft refuses to punish witches, how does it avoid becoming alienated from the perceived needs of its people or,...

Beginning in 1867 with the inception of segregated public schools and ending in 1983, ten years after federal court-ordered desegregation, Reading, Writing, and Segregation details the experiences of African American women teachers in Nashville,...

Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy identifies and explains key aspects of the work of Cornel West - the highly regarded scholar of religion, philosophy, and African American studies - as they relate to composition studies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611861624Author Rita Kiki EdozieFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624911637Author Dr Terrence J RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...