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Black in America

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488006
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Black in America written by and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black in America samples the breadth of non-fiction writing on African American experiences in the United States. The emphasis is on twenty-first-century authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine, and Roxane Gay, but a substantial representation of vitally important writing from other eras is also included, from Olaudah Equiano and Sojourner Truth to James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker; in all there are over 50 selections. Selections are arranged by author in rough chronological order; the book also includes alternative tables of contents listing material by thematic subject and by genre and rhetorical style. A headnote, explanatory notes, and discussion questions facilitate student engagement with each piece. A percentage of the revenue from this book's sales will be donated to three organizations: Black Lives Matter, Equal Justice Initiative, and Color of Change.

Discovering Black America

Author : Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335429X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Black America written by Linda Tarrant-Reid and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People

Trust in Black America

Author : Shayla Nunnally
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814759319
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Trust in Black America written by Shayla Nunnally and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Rather than promoting democracy, the United States government has, from its inception, racially discriminated against African American citizens and other racial groups, denying them equal access to citizenship and to protection of the law. Civil rights violations by ordinary citizens have also tainted social relationships between racial groups—social relationships that should be meaningful for enhancing relations between citizens and the government at large. Thus, trust and democracy do not function in American politics the way they should, in part because trust is not color blind. Based on the premise that racial discrimination breaks down trust in a democracy, Trust in Black America examines the effect of race on African Americans' lives. Shayla Nunnally analyzes public opinion data from two national surveys to provide an updated and contemporary analysis of African Americans' political socialization, and to explore how African Americans learn about race. She argues that the uncertainty, risk, and unfairness of institutionalized racial discrimination has led African Americans to have a fundamentally different understanding of American race relations, so much so that distrust has been the basis for which race relations have been understood by African Americans. Nunnally empirically demonstrates that race and racial discrimination have broken down trust in American democracy.

The State of Black America

Author : William B. Allen
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772670
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The State of Black America written by William B. Allen and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself. "A much-needed antidote to the madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy." —The Honorable Judge Janice Rogers Brown In a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues to the present discourse, assembling a company of scholars who confront our nation’s troubled racial history even as they bear witness to the promise the American heritage contains for blacks. The essays in this volume bring clarity to the murky darkness of America’s race debates, reviewing and building upon the latest scholarship on the character, shape, and tendencies of life for black Americans. Together, they tell a story of black America’s astounding success in integrating into mainstream American culture and propose that black patriotism is the key to overcoming what problems remain. Featuring scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including history, economics, social science, and political philosophy, The State of Black America offers to the world a “toolbox” of intellectual resources to aid careful and sound thinking on one of the most fraught issues of our time. Featuring contributions from W. B. Allen, Mikael Rose Good, Edward J. Erler, Robert D. Bland, Glenn C. Loury, Ian V. Rowe, Precious D. Hall, Daphne Cooper, Star Parker, and Robert Borens.

The Shaping of Black America

Author : Lerone Bennett (Jr.)
Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9780874850710
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of Black America written by Lerone Bennett (Jr.) and published by Johnson Publishing Company (IL). This book was released on 1975 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A developmental history of the African-American struggle for autonomy and power discusses black slaves and white indentured servants, the black founding fathers, the relationship between African-Americans and native Americans, and other issues.

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Author : Marcia Chatelain
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493957
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America written by Marcia Chatelain and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

Author : Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807875360
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 written by Beth Tompkins Bates and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics--which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action--by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company. Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.

And Still I Rise

Author : Henry Louis Gates
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062427016
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book And Still I Rise written by Henry Louis Gates and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has both a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies—and a large black underclass beset by persistent poverty, inadequate education, and an epidemic of incarceration. Harvard professor and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. How did the African American community end up encompassing such profound contradictions? And what will “the black community” mean tomorrow? Gates takes readers through the major historical events and untold stories of the sixty years that have irrevocably shaped both the African American experience and the nation as a whole, from the explosive social and political changes of the 1960s, into the 1970s and 1980s—eras characterized by both prosperity and neglect—through the turn of the century to today, taking measure of such racial flashpoints as the Tawana Brawley case, OJ Simpson’s murder trial, the murders of Amadou Diallo and Trayvon Martin, and debates around the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policies. Even as it surveys the political and social evolution of black America, And Still I Rise is also a celebration of the accomplishments of black artists, musicians, writers, comedians, and thinkers who have helped to define American popular culture and to change our world.

The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later

Author : Tavis Smiley
Publisher : Smiley Books
ISBN 13 : 140195149X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later written by Tavis Smiley and published by Smiley Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America ... ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, black women still die from preventable diseases, black children still struggle to get a high quality education, the digital divide and environmental inequality still persist ... So Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, presenting in this new edition the original action plan--with a new foreword and conclusion--alongside fresh data from the Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to underscore missed opportunities and the work that remains to be done"--Amazon.com.

Mental Health in Black America

Author : Harold W. Neighbors
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health in Black America written by Harold W. Neighbors and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to overcome adversity and maintain a positive, healthy perspective on life. Based on data obtained from a United States National Survey of Black Americans, the book first discusses psychological and sociological factors affecting life satisfaction. Contributors then explore how these psychosocial factors contribute to such health problems as alcoholism and hypertension. The volume concludes with an examination of strategies Black Americans use in their attempt to solve life problems. These include: prayer; avoidance; active problem-solving; and seeking help from family, community

Red Summer

Author : Cameron McWhirter
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429972939
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Red Summer written by Cameron McWhirter and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost. Blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before. Red Summer is the first narrative history written about this epic encounter. Focusing on the worst riots and lynchings—including those in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charleston, Omaha and Knoxville—Cameron McWhirter chronicles the mayhem, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society forty years later.

How to Make Black America Better

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307486087
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Black America Better written by and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach that includes Smiley’s own ten challenges to the African American community. Smiley and his contributors stress the family tie, the power of community networks, the promise of education, and the leverage of black economic and political strength in shaping a new vision of America. Encouraging African Americans to realize the potential of their own leadership and to work collectively from the bottom up, the selections offer new ideas for addressing vital issues facing black communities. Featuring original essays by some of our most important thinkers, How to Make Black America Better is an essential book for anyone concerned with the status of African Americans today.

Losing the Race

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684836696
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Losing the Race written by John H. McWhorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why "victimhood" is exaggerated and enshrined in African-American families and discusses why these attitudes are destructive to future generations.

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135581223
Total Pages : 1713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations written by Nina Mjagkij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans for Humanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * Black Women's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science * National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists * National Dental Association * National Medical Association * Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association * Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church * and many more.

Family Life in Black America

Author : Robert Joseph Taylor
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803952911
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Family Life in Black America written by Robert Joseph Taylor and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-08-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus', offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality, procreation, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, cohabitation, parenting, grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape, limit and enhance them.

Black in White America

Author : Leonard Freed
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060112
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Black in White America written by Leonard Freed and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969.

The Black American Handbook for Survival Through the 21st Century: The forgotten truth behind racism in America

Author : RaDine Amen-ra
Publisher : Quantum Leapslc Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780970545503
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Black American Handbook for Survival Through the 21st Century: The forgotten truth behind racism in America written by RaDine Amen-ra and published by Quantum Leapslc Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black "Americas" Handbook vol. 1. complete & finale edition is the first edition of a series of books about the foundation for the United States in America, why the dynamics of institutionalized and systematic racism is against them and how it relates to the destiny of the race of peoples as black "America" today.