African American & Black

A brilliant philosopher and his influence on the rise of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movementWhile intellectual histories of the civil rights movement often center Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings, author Larry Omar Rivers argues that...

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) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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) 529gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513282640Author W. E. B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

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 9781733869027Author Steven C DubinFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Cityfiles PressPublisher Cityfiles PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 222mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125659Author Careth ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

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) 794gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 17mm

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) 272gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641605274Author Ronnie GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 530gDimensions(mm)...

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked...

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free...

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They...

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...

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked...

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial...

With Central City's Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City...

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift...

When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance formed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226744230Author Robin BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state,...

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...

On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified the killers: convicts on work release who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. As anger at...

During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an...

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, a turbulent period fraught with violence, struggle, and uncertainty, a forgotten few African Americans banded together as men to assert their rights as citizens. Following emancipation, the nation's newest...

In 1918 Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, becoming its first female African American graduate (though she was not allowed to "walk" at graduation, nor is she pictured in the 1918 CU yearbook)...

Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State College during the civil rights eraTravis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary...

In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609388171Author Jodi SkipperFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams)...