African American & Black Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738542409Author Tracey Gold BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738518107Author Colita Nichols FairfaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991389209Author Nova M EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Nova M EdwardsPublisher Nova M EdwardsWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986381904Author W Gabriel Selassie I Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint W. Gabriel Selassie IPublisher W. Gabriel Selassie IWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (South-East Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780983889205Author Waights Taylor, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count...

An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomble. Remnants, a...

Focusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, Manfred Berg challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809069545Author Steven WeisenburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm *...

First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker's death) were increasingly radical. Addressed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802869494Author Lester RuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806518688Author Mark RibowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780767921879Author Todd BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Crown Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984757237Author Terrance AmenFormat PaperbackImprint T VenturesPublisher T VenturesWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692744093Author Kevin Anthony JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint SevenPublisher SevenWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741733Author Taalib BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint SevenPublisher SevenWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578157399Author Jeff WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint M.O.N.A.R.C.H. PressPublisher M.O.N.A.R.C.H. PressWeight(grams) 152g

What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high?Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned...

The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge...

A genuine reflection of the everyday lives of Black men from all walks of life, Souls of My Brothers is an inspirational collection of first-person narratives that details the unique journey of the Black man as he struggles to define himself in society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701689Author Stanley CrouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 315g

From Spike Lee's encouragement of independent, community fundraising to Joycelyn Elders's warning about the failings of our "sick-care" system to Stanley Crouch's disputation on "heroic" versus "anarchic" individuality, Black Genius is an exceptional,...

All young people need good role models, and black youth especially need positive and real examples beyond the famous and wealthy people they see on SportsCenter highlights and MTV Cribs. While success as a celebrity athlete or entertainer may seem like...

“Impressive…A scrupulously researched work enlarging our understanding of an integral aspect of slave culture.”–-The Washington Post Book WorldWhat was it like to be a slave on a plantation of the antebellum South? How did the fiction of the happy slave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927851Author Kennell JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 703g

An account of slavery in New York State, often thought to be a bastion of the antislavery movement, from the importation of blacks in the 17th century until its abolition 1841.Book InformationISBN 9780815628941Author Edgar J. McManusFormat PaperbackPage...

As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and...

The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as...

In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to...

Beyond simplistic binaries of "the dark continent" or "Africa rising," Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be...

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and...

What is the "something in these hills" that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians? This ethnographic examination challenges contemporary theory and explores two interrelated themes: the duality of the southern Appalachians as...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the...

During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black...

During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black...

Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants-former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the...

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface...

The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But...

The African American Experience in Texas collects for the first time the finest historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s, the selections highlight the significant role that...

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a...