General African American Studies

What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a ""woman's only"" discussion...

Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. Even if you think you're hip,...

In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks. This suffering is so normalized in American life that it often goes...

Black State of America, is not just a book to read and then go about your normal daily routine. This Guidebook is designed to spark an emotional and intellectual response inside of the hearts and minds of its readers. From this social diagram, the Black...

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-to-use guide that African Americans have been waiting for since Alex Haley published Roots more than...

President Barack Obama should have improved The United States. But two terms and eight years later, race relations in America were worse than ever. Author Stephen Welton Taber provides a political timeline documenting racism against whites by the Obama...

President Barack Obama should have improved The United States. But two terms and eight years later, race relations in America were worse than ever. Author Stephen Welton Taber provides a political timeline documenting racism against whites by the Obama...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell. This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis,...

Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for...

In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a member of his executive staff, sat down to take stock of the civil rights movement and the progress it had made. His assessment was that it failed, and that the blame lay in the...

This classic includes succinct, compelling accounts of African Americans who fought and died for a freedom they could not enjoy.Joseph T. Wilson was not only a historian of the fighting black spirit in the Civil War, but was one of its soldiers. His...

'Fantastic ... the most important book on Black British history' - AkalaBlack People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in...

Surviving a stroke and coma, Curtis Cannon suffered a traumatic brain injury and slipped into depression. He noticed he had a great deal of time on his hands. He has been compelled to make an attempt to familiarize as many black people as possible. He...

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white...

In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were free people of color. But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION - A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTIONOne doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race,...