African-American Life in Sumner County, Hardcover - Velma Howell Brinkley

Early African Americans in Sumner County, both slaves and free, left a legacy not only of beautiful brick buildings and sturdy stone fences, but al...

Reducere. DescriptionCommunities in the United States are chapters in the great story of this country. And while many of these chapters are well known in our...

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

Reducere. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Typical of most communities after the Civil War, Nacogdoches's African Americans had to repurpose their lives by building their own communities whi...

African Americans have heavily contributed to and shaped the unique and vibrant Rutherford County in middle Tennessee. Located 30 miles southeast o...

African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress. Runaway slaves secreted along stations of the Underground Rail...

Reducere. From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a pow...

Reducere. DescriptionIn anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley deli...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

Reducere. Carter G. Woodson's classic work of criticism explores how the education received by Blacks has failed to give them an appreciation of themselves a...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

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Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was established in 1721, but it was not until after the Civil War that the names of approximately 4, 700 African Ame...

Reducere. African Americans of Orangeburg County, Hardcover

Using a page-a-day format, this is a collection of vignettes--inspired moments--from the lives of black woman across recorded time.About author(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionBeginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussi...

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...

Durham County, North Carolina, once called the "Chicago of the South" and the "Capital of the Black Bourgeoisie, " has long occupied an important p...

Reducere. African Americans of Lower Richland County, Hardcover

Reducere. This title is the third in the successful theme-based Stitched Textiles series. It contains a comprehensive techniques section, six beautiful step-...

Reducere. Did you know your cellphone was invented by an African American? What about the doorknob, mailbox, or the home security system? Through the book, y...

Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than a...

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A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions a...

Award NamePROSEAward categoryAnthropology/ArcheologyDescription2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology B...

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

Reducere. In Child Discipline in African American Families, Carla Adikison-Johnson provides a contextual understanding of African American disciplinary pract...