Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Paperback - Heather Andrea Williams

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

Reducere. DescriptionFacsimile of 1943 Edition. In this work Berdyaev outlines his philosophical journey and describes the influences which brought him to hi...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

Shannen Dee Williams provides a comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, tracing how Black sisters' struggles were centra...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Reducere. Although more and more Americans are practicing meditation, it is still relatively rare among African Americans. In Free Your Mind, Cortez Rainey d...

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and fre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

Reducere. Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the ...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. DescriptionRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP image award, a groundbreak...

Reducere. The relationship between self-esteem and student achievement is analyzed in this book.

Reducere. The service of African Americans in defense of the Union during the Civil War required African American nurses, doctors and surgeons to heal those ...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cul...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how bla...

Reducere. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Lesli...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Reducere. love vs logic was the battle of her life, and her greatest opponentwas time. truths. and freedom. is an invitation to feel it all.it is a dare to e...

DescriptionI am a self-taught programmer. After a year of self-study, I learned to program well enough to land a job as a software engineer II at e...

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the ve...

Reducere. In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understandi...

Reducere. This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberati...

This book is a comprehensive survey of African American Christian Religious Education (AACRE). It addresses historical, theological, and ministeria...

Reducere. DescriptionA companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American his...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

The story behind Martin Luther King's historic, but largely forgotten visit to Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1967, placing King's visit within an...

New start, new love. That's what Honor Sontag needs after her life falls apart, leaving her reputation in tatters and her head all over the place. ...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

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...

Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...

Reducere. This critical analysis looks at the disproportionate number of African American males in special education. Arguing that the problem is race and ge...

Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold, suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the 'summer riches' of Paris: a city where the bohemians wi...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History.You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies.He...

Reducere. This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts o...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland bec...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

Reducere. Geared toward African American parents, this handbook offers more than 50 tips on successfully guiding girls into womanhood and helping them avoid ...

Reducere. Making use of the latest trends and statistics, "Educating Black Girls" is a guidebook that looks at the academic performances of African American ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory NoblesIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...