"African American Studies" downloads

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of...

African-American Children at Church explores African-American socialization beliefs and practices, based on findings of a unique, four-year long study...

What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force...

Say It Plain is a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, exhorting the...

Profiles thirty-two successful black women, from judges to rocket scientists to corporate executive officers, revealing the combination of hard work,...

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five...

Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues—from football to film and law to Shakespeare....

"A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in...

This exposé investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into...

Uneasy Alliances is a powerful challenge to how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy....

In Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina, Janet G. Hudson analyzes World War I-era South...

African Slaves, after over 200 years (1619-1863) of enslavement, emerged from the first leg of our arduous journey as a...

White people of America, we know you've got it rough. Sure, black men and women have been through...

The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the...

A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In...

This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femini......

When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King,...

DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a...

Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from...

Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education is a conceptualization of protest and resistance against the cultural politics of oppression...