African-American Studies
Featured Items
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Paperback
ISBN: 080784232x
Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
1st Edition Hardcover
ISBN: 0679427430
A collection of inspirational messages presents the author's insights into such topics as friendship, grace, spirit, family, and healing
African Silences
Paperback
ISBN: 0679731024
Examines the harsh political and economic realities that are ravaging Africa and its inhabitants, offering studies of the rare animals faced with extinction and the individuals working to preserve wild Africa
The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents
Paperback
ISBN: 0312112076
Careful study of the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831 reveals much about master, slaves, and the relationship between them in the antebellum South. The central document in this volume — Nat Turner's confession follwing the rebellion in Virginia — is supported by newspaper articles, trial transcripts, and excerpts from the diary of Virginia governor John Floyd.
Life on the Color Line
The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Paperback
ISBN: 0452275334
The author recounts the shock he experienced when he learned his father's relatives in Muncie, Indiana, were poor and Black, and the prejudice that he and his brother endured from both sides
A Testament of Hope
The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paperback
ISBN: 0060646918
Collects the civil rights leader's writings on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, and more
Sugar in the Raw
Voices of Young Black Girls in America
Paperback
ISBN: 0517884976
In a collection of interviews, fifteen African American girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen share their thoughts on their lives, self-esteem, personal identity, values, race, and their dreams for the future
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Black Communities Organizing for Change
Paperback
ISBN: 0029221307
A blending of scholarly research and interviews with many of the figures who launched the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s records the events of the movement's tumultuous first decade
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Paperback
ISBN: 0440314887
Anne Moody provides a first person account of growing up black in the rural south during the nineteen forties and fifties.
The Birth of African-American Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Paperback
ISBN: 0807009172
Examines the emergence of a distinct African-American culture among the different African ethnic groups enslaved in the Americas
