Studies in African American History and Culture
Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana
1st Edition
By Katherine Bankole
March 31, 2021
This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality as a cause of the constant need for medical attention; and ...
A Good Master Well Served: Masters and Servants in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1750
1st Edition
By Lawrence William Towner
June 30, 2020
First published in 1998. Early American historians are finding connections between the bonded status of African American slaves, European indentured servants, convicts, and sailors. An excellent starting point for this inquiry is this neglected classic by Lawrence Towner, former head of the ...
Constructing Belonging: Class, Race, and Harlem's Professional Workers
1st Edition
By Sabiyha Robin Prince
January 17, 2019
Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers. It begins by considering centuries of New York City history and the structural elements...
The Art of the Black Essay
1st Edition
By Cheryl Butler
January 17, 2019
The Art of the Black Essay unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology - by immersing them in it - and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change. This title outlines the specific tools of ...
Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records
1st Edition
By Carol Buchalter Stapp
December 19, 2018
First published in 1993. The probate records of antebellum black Bostonians offer an ideal opportunity to compare the literature to a primary source, both in terms of content and method. Critical reviews of the scholarship, first, on black social history and, then, on probate inventories as ...
The Afro-American in New York City, l827-l860
1st Edition
By George E. Walker
December 19, 2018
First published in 1993. This study traces the complex social, economic, religious, and political forces which affected African-Americans and their overall response to them. It more specifically illustrates how the prevailing views and actions of the dominant society serve to limit the aspirations ...
Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South
1st Edition
By Stacey K. Close
October 26, 2016
Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some...
Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Lives, Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs
1st Edition
By Karen Johnson
October 17, 2016
First published in 2000. This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. They were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century Black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that ...
Prophets of Rage: The Black Freedom Struggle in San Francisco, 1945-1969
1st Edition
By Daniel E. Crowe
September 22, 2016
The Black Panther Party has been at once the most maligned and most celebrated Black Power organization, and this study explores the party's origins in the tumultuous history of race relations in the San Francisco Bay Area after the Second World War. The massive influx of African American migrants...
Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel E. Meaders, Daniel Meaders
August 26, 2016
This collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia highlights the plight of African Americans fleeing bondage in early nineteenth century Virginia. Presented in modern type, the advertisements appear exactly as published. The preface situates these advertisements historically, and indicates ...
Emerging Afrikan Survivals: An Afrocentric Critical Theory
1st Edition
By Kemayo Kamau
August 26, 2016
This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident ....
Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition
1st Edition
By Aimable Twagilimana
August 26, 2016
This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, ...