African American & Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498246934Author Michael S WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 404g

Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. We get to know the women individually as they discuss everything from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. We hear...

Why do Blacks underperform in school? Researchers continue to pursue this question with vigor not only because Blacks currently lag behind Whites on a wide variety of educational indices but because the closing of the Black-White achievement gap has...

This study explores African-American identity through film, drawing from Spike Lee's cinematic production of X (1992) and Bamboozled (2000). The study brings attention to how African-American identity is negotiated in communicative interactions. In doing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789876390378Author James Morris WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Stanfordpub.comPublisher Stanfordpub.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

While the essays collected in this volume address a number of issues, they all share the same aim of placing Africanist librarianship in the contexts of our times. Many essays set high value on service to present and future African library users, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612030449Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450292122Author Lucky RosenbloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583485668Author Ernestine WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539473770Author Robyn MahaffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981244027Author Michael Holloway King MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533516008Author William Samuel Bundy IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497434455Author Harriet Ann JacobsFormat PaperbackImprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 608g

The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436347006Author Eric A McMillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737931263Author Hudda IbrahimFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Diverse Voices PressPublisher Diverse Voices PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622730643Author Latashia HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

This is a collection of key essays about the Akan Peoples, their history and culture. The Akans are an ethnic group in West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century on, Akans created numerous states...

In the grand design of slavery in the Caribbean, White planters separated African slaves of similar tribal and linguistic groups in an effort to destroy African cultural traditions. The result was an African population that lost most of its African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881524922Author James ClingmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Professional PublishingPublisher Professional PublishingWeight(grams) 308g

With this purported new "era of high-profile, mega successful, black women who are changing the face of every major field worldwide" and growing socioeconomic diversity among black women as the backdrop, Embracing Sisterhood seeks to determine...

African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African...

In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays,...

Anti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary "global" city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496504Author Alexis McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639238194Author By R E SimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890965622Author William Hooper CouncillFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 59g

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. White business owners employed black workers and made their fortunes, while black leaders led congregations, edited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484010556Author William Wells BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639237890Author By Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497468160Author Delroy Constantine-Simms (C Psych)Format PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218168162Author Terrance WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Terrance Wells, Ph.DPublisher Terrance Wells, Ph.DWeight(grams) 150g

Jim Crow's Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the lives of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book draws on interviews with elderly African American southerners whose stories poignantly...

Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such...

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and...

Architecture is a challenging profession. The education is rigorous and the licensing process lengthy; the industry is volatile and compensation lags behind other professions. All architects make a huge investment to be able to practice, but additional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433902412Author Ryszard KapuscinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 20mm