African American Studies

2014 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rogers' work was concerned with "the Great Black Man" theory of history. This theory presented history, specifically black history, as...

Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these encouraging signs, Thomas Shapiro argues in The Hidden...

WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS (1868-1963) was one of the greatest African American intellectuals -- a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement...

Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks--and what blacks owe themselves.In...

"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson--these three narratives, gathered together here, chronicle the remarkable evolution of...

A celebration of (and how to find your own) queer intersectional identity through the lens of media In Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices (in Media) and Learning to Love Yourself, educator and media critic Dr. Jonathan P...

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US   Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to...

"Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?" Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice's book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and...

A remarkable new poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional...

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black...