African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250321916Author Chad L WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593447376Author Brea BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803902Author Maegan Parker BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881803841Author Erica L. BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This volume examines the influence of African Catholics on the historical development of Black Christianity in America during the seventeenth century. Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant...

A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land...

A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land...

Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are...

Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African...

This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.In a...

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents...

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents...

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women's prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today's abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed...

For the white man it is almost impossible to comprehend what it took to lift the black man from the state of brutal slavery to his rightful place in society. Indeed, we are still grappling with that problem today. Starting from scratch has new meaning...

This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.In a...

The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of...

Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs-sometimes called Black Bohemians-seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467124980Author Karcheik Sims-AlvaradoFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black Freedom Struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781580028Author Harriet Ann JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Coda Books LtdPublisher Coda Books LtdWeight(grams) 529g

Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service,...

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125659Author Careth ReidFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888960813Author Donald PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Black ThangPublisher Black ThangWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467119597Author Jean BolducFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin...

Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and...

An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights eraThis book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the...

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional...

The role of historical archaeology in the study of African diaspora history and culture.Exploring the archaeological study of enslavement and emancipation in the United States, this book discusses significant findings, the attitudes and approaches of...

In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715- 1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," "mixed-A bloods," or simply "free people of color." From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469666099Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North Carolina Press

Featured on The Candace Owens Show podcast Why I Stand highlights the threat of Marxist Socialism to our American culture. The victor will determine the heart, soul, and freedom of our nation for future generations.American Individualism has been the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744042146Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 195g

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013373Author Jasmine BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Stowe Prize 2024. Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2022 and National Book Award 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780593182994Author Scott EllsworthFormat...

As an age of empire and industry dawned in the wake of American Civil War, Southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. The fair expositions popular at this time allowed Southerners to explore this changing world on their own terms. On a local,...

The basis of the 2013 Academy Award–winning film 12 Years a Slave, this is the autobiography of Solomon Northup—an African American man born free in New York state who is tricked, kidnapped, taken to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery.Solomon...