General African American Studies

Publisher Comments: What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naAve concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American...

By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers, unspeakabl

The host of Comedy Central's "Chocolate News" shares his outrageously funny view of the melting pot that is American culture. FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration...

"Run In My Shoes" defines the pace that is sometimes required of African Americans to make up the socioeconomic distance between the races created by prejudice. This insightful book traces the racial divide from its historical origins up to the present...

This ground-breaking volume reminds us of the roots of soul food and the importance of food in African American identity.Like other Americans, African Americans partake of the general food offerings available in mainstream supermarket chains across the...

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants...

Mosley has crafted a deeply personal and political proposal, offering a commonsense approach to the challenge of finding world peace in a post-9/11 world. He explores what the terrorist attacks meant to him and challenges African Americans to use their...

Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, "Seeking Higher Ground," prominent...

"This masterfully edited collection . . . is worth every exhilarating moment that one spends perusing it". -- Journal of American History

A handbook for nurturing the black consciousness and activism.

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised...