African American Studies

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Dreams From My Father

Dreams From My Father

by Barack Obama-

Published in 1995, this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then... Read more about this item
Coming Of Age In Mississippi

Coming Of Age In Mississippi

by Anne Moody

Anne Moody brings the rural South to light with her famous autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi.  This account of life for a poor black family provides a brutal and sobering look at the Civil Rights movement.
This book strips away the illusion that the inequality being overcome is just between "whites" and "blacks," but is also between sexes, ages, and ideals. A bitter and difficult story, but very important to read and question.
The Warmth Of Other Suns

The Warmth Of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her research into the Great Migration. She has lectured on narrative writing at the Nieman Foundation at... Read more about this item
Race Matters

Race Matters

by West Cornel

Race Matters is a 1994 social sciences book, authored by Cornel West. The book was first published on March 29, 1994 in the English language by Vintage Books. The book analyses moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United States. The book questions matters of economics and politics, as well as ethical issues and spirituality, and also addresses the crisis in black leadership.
Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains

by Adam Hochschild

From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This... Read more about this item
Incidents In the Life Of a Slave Girl

Incidents In the Life Of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother's attic, Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her time, presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative... Read more about this item
April 4, 1968

April 4, 1968

by Michael Eric Dyson

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic justice in America-ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” Acclaimed public intellectual and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination as... Read more about this item
Parting the Waters

Parting the Waters

by Taylor Branch

The Measure Of Our Success

The Measure Of Our Success

by Marian Wright Edelman

All Gods Dangers

All Gods Dangers

by Theodore Rosengarten

Mississippi

Mississippi

by James W Silver

Many Thousands Gone

Many Thousands Gone

by Ira Berlin

Laughing In the Dark

Laughing In the Dark

by Patrice Gaines

House Of Bondage

House Of Bondage

by Ernest Cole

Roll, Jordan, Roll

Roll, Jordan, Roll

by Eugene D Genovese-

An American Dilemma

An American Dilemma

by Gunnar Myrdal

Pillar Of Fire

Pillar Of Fire

by Taylor Branch

African American Studies Books & Ephemera

Here I Stand

Here I Stand

by Robeson, Paul

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass), recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the 20th century. He gained international attention for his work in the arts and he merged his artistic career with political activism to speak out for the equality of minorities and the rights of workers throughout the world. His friendship with the Soviet Union and the Soviet peoples plus... Read more about this item
My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr

My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr

by King, Coretta Scott

Bush Negro Art

Bush Negro Art

by Philip J C Dark

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

by Bego, Mark

A Song In His Heart

A Song In His Heart

by Daly, John Jay

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

by Holt, Rackham

Crisis In Black and White

Crisis In Black and White

by Silberman, Charles E

An American Death

An American Death

by Frank, Gerold

The Harvesters

The Harvesters

by Shotwell, Louisa R