African American & Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791468623Author Jacqueline ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791408483Author R. Patrick SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791404867Author Walter R. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The heroics of black Union soldiers in the Civil War have been justly celebrated, but their postwar lives largely neglected. Donald Shaffer's illuminating study shines a bright light on this previously obscure part of African American history, revealing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692167694Author Anika NailahFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Dale ThomasPublisher Dale ThomasWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674862654Author Professor Judith WeisenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615305073Author Keleti SanonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Mandingo PublishingPublisher Mandingo PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595413706Author Abimbola LagunjuFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595378388Author Akeam a SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595348190Author Abimbola LagunjuFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 141g

Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations...

The long-awaited new book by the author of the bestselling All Our Kin is a poignant saga of a reverse exodus: the return of half a million black Americans to the rural South.There have been many books focusing on the black migration out of the South...

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Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Eric Dyson has never shied away from controversy. No stranger to intellectual combat,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345380449Author Ralph WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 342g

This in-depth examination looks at African American women's navigation of the interlocking obstacles of race and gender specifically within the political arena. Conflict: African American Women and the New Dilemma of Race and Gender Politics offers a...

This rich cultural history of African Americans outlines their travails, triumphs, and achievements in negotiating individual and collective identities to overcome racism, slavery, and the legacies of these injustices from colonial times to the present...

Does justice exist for Blacks in America? This comprehensive compilation of essays documents the historical and contemporary impact of the law and criminal justice system on people of African ancestry in the United States. African Americans and Criminal...

Like other Americans, African Americans partake of the general food offerings available in mainstream supermarket chains across the country. Food culture, however, may depend on where they live and their degree of connection to traditions passed down...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313223303Author Gilbert Franklin EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A major reassessment of Ralph Ellison's literary legacy that explores the mysteries surrounding his unfinished second novel Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952's...

Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis for governance of a polity historically erected on racial and ethnic division? In this book Courtney Jung...

Today, the debate over reparations-whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation-stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics. In this short, definitive work, Alfred L. Brophy, an expert on racial...

Challenging the traditional interpretation that the years between Reconstruction and World War I were a period when blacks made only marginal advances in religion, politics, and social life, John Giggie contends that these years marked a critical turning...

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In...

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful...

Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms-of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery-the ultimate denial of these freedoms-deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our...

When Tom Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current scholarly discourse on the subject. Though it has gone out of...

In the 1960s, the mainstream Protestant churches responded to an urgent need by becoming deeply involved with the national black community in its struggle for racial justice. The National Council of Churches (NCC), as the principal ecumenical...

This text has two major emphases: it is an analysis of the methods employed by social scientists, historians, and literary critics in the study of African-American religion; and it is a constructive theological statement regarding African-American...

Hallie Q. Brown and twenty-eight contributors recreate the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. Slaves and social workers, artists and activists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195023879Author A. Leon HigginbothamFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 772g

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Twenty years after sparking a national dialogue, The Covenant with Black America returns with renewed urgency, weaving original insights with contemporary voices, and reminding us that our collective liberation is essential for a more equitable society...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219417Author Mifflin Wistar GibbsFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208374Author Anna J CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463428327Author Selbourne ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 97g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569249758Author Archie EppsFormat PaperbackImprint Marlowe & CompanyPublisher Marlowe & CompanyWeight(grams) 259g

Twenty heart-felt narratives of survival and courageBook InformationISBN 9781566390170Author Emily WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.