Black Earth

DescriptionAn African-American writer's concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held...

Reducere. Trace, document, record, and write your family's history with this easy-to-read, step-by-step authoritative guide. Finally, here is the fun, easy-t...

A provocative analysis of the new contours of Black nationalism and feminism in the context of the changing politics of race in America.

DescriptionUnder apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government's policies, and ...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

DescriptionIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is...

DescriptionThis celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -...

"Brilliant."--Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter."--The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and tur...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

Reducere. When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxili...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In ...

Reducere. In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1973, the year the women's movement won an important symbolic victory with Roe v. Wade, reports surfaced that twelve-year-old Minnie ...

Reducere. This book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas's students: "How could you, a black woman, possibly be a Christian?" Reflection on the hi...

Reducere. The book, The Great Awakening of the Black Hebrew Israelites... in these last days takes a Biblical journey through the Holy Scriptures that reveal...

DescriptionBlack French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gor e, Daka...

Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. DuBois knew that the li...

Reducere. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s is now remembered as a distant, sepia-toned campaign, whose achievements and idealism were soon ecl...

DescriptionSince the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked Africa...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Bla...

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

Reducere. Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives--in often unexpected ways. In these thirteen strikingly candid...

Reducere. Highlighting certain socioeconomic and cultural trends, this exploration discloses the new dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans...

Reducere. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working cl...

DescriptionInterested in the origins of the species? Consider the Platypus uses pets such as dogs and cats as well as animal outliers like the axol...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black his...

Reducere. The story begins in South America, where people who spoke Arawak-an Amerindian language fashioned a culture based on yuca or cassava farming, hunti...

Reducere. The autobiography of the "Red Baron, " Manfred von Richthofen, written shortly before his death in April 1918. New introduction gives a brief histo...

Reducere. Description"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they...

Reducere. Description"This is a no-holds-barred analysis of contemporary liberalism and the havoc it is wrecking in American culture. From race, to abortion,...

"A powerful -- and personal -- account of the movement and its players."--The Washington Post"This perceptive resource on radical black liberation ...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indig...

Reducere. Cold Harbor PMC and Kurdish Special Operations continue to map and dismember Hezbollah and Islamic State infrastructure within the post Syrian Kurd...

Reducere. The reader will be exposed to the memoirs of the people who were present during the American Revolution. These memoirs describe a black British/Ger...

Reducere. DescriptionHerein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentie...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have pl...

Reducere. From moths and beetles to worms and spiders, this completely illustrated, fact-filled book features hundreds of creepy-crawlies for kids to discove...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

Reducere. DescriptionA new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of co...

Reducere. 'A City Within a City' is a case study of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically on the struggles involving s...

Reducere. Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this "breathtaking ...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Reducere. A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama's mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and e...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

Reducere. Describes the dramatic environmental changes to come, tells how to survive them, and includes maps showing what will occur on each continent and in...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the p...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its lim...

Reducere. DescriptionA True Likeness showcases the extraordinary photography of Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), who operated a studio in Columbia, South ...

Reducere. Reveals how whites in Greensboro used the traditional Southern concept of civility as a means of keeping Black protest in check and how Black activ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionFor 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the wh...

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's Race, Reform, and Rebellion has become widely known as the most crucial political and soc...

Reducere. Not unlike Moses at Mt. Sinai, Black Elk had a powerful, predictive communication from the Higher Power. Instead of Moral and Ethical commandments,...

Reducere. Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornersto...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Monique RoffeyNumber of pages: 256Collection: Vintage EarthPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 21...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Arkan LushwalaThe Time of the Black Jaguar speaks to the times of change that we are now living in. The insights contained ...

DescriptionA richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their liv...

In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial pro...

Reducere. DescriptionRon Graybill's Mission to Black America remains as singular and significant an achievement as it was when first published nearly 50 year...

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

Reducere. DescriptionThese collected essays examine the roles of women in their churches and communities, the implication of those roles for African American...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions--citizenship, power, and justice--that ar...

DescriptionIn 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for e...