African American & Black Studies

Dexter B. Gordon's ""Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism"" investigates the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States...

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African...

W. E. B. Du Bois: Pioneer American Sociologist highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology. Robert A. Wortham shines a light on Du Bois’s role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his...

Written from a participant/observer’s viewpoint, this is an engaging chronicle of the civil rights movement of Chicago as it unfolded during the crucial decade of the 1960s. The story line is chronological and follows the unfolding agenda of the Chicago...

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the lives, works, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of...

Insufficient attention has been given to the environment in Africana studies within the academy. In Greening Africana Studies, Rubin Patterson initiates an important conversation explaining why and how the gap between these two disciplines can and should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870206788Author Michael EdmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he brought with his household young...

In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also brought pleasure. Tara A. Bynum tells the compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed...

African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida provides an impactful overview of the history of African American Studies at the University of Florida. Chapters are based on papers presented at the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the...

Rock Art of Kentucky is the first comprehensive documentation of the fragile remnants of Kentucky's prehistoric Native American rock art sites. Found in twenty-two of Kentucky's counties, these sites pan a period of more than three thousand years. The...

In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching...

Counting the Tiger's Teeth examines a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion ("Peasants Reject Poverty") of 1968-70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to...

A leading African American intellectual, Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Jones used his position was executive secretary of the National Urban League to work with social reformers...

Canter Brown's groundbreaking study reveals the magnitude and impact of African American leadership in Florida during the post-Civil War era, with emphasis on the complications and challenges that developed as leadership patterns and traditions evolved...

Observers of American society have long noted the distinctive contribution of African Americans to the nation's cultural life. We find references to African American music and dance, black forms of oral expression, even a black style of playing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817354619Author J. ChestnutFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him, Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767912389Author Dennis KimbroFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611861686Author P Khalil SaucierFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

We know a great deal about civil rights organizations during the 1960s, but relatively little about black political organizations since that decade. Questions of focus, accountability, structure, and relevance have surrounded these groups since the...

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, black...

This history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the...

Rac(e)ing to the Right is a great read and brings overdue attention to one of the most popular and controversial African American writers in history. . . . These writings reveal both the presence and the limits of conservatism in the African American...

An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric "reparations...

For all the talk about a new postracial America, the fundamental realities of American racism--and the problems facing black political movements--have not changed. Michael C. Dawson lays out a nuanced analysis of the persistence of racial inequality and...

For much of the nation's history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was approximately in line with their proportion in the total population. This changed during the 1970s: by 1980 one of every three Army GIs and one of every five marines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001127Author Martin Luther King Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The prize-winning classic volume by acclaimed historian Ira Berlin is now available in a handsome new edition, with a new preface by the author. It is a moving portrait of the quarter of a million free black men and women who lived in the South before...

New York's urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to "keep it real" and restaurants like Sylvia's famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of "authentic" black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered the...

Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards,...

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings...

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about...

Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more...

Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to...

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro...

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature 2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728293Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Nonfiction) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780060984380Author Lawrence Otis GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher...