Studies in African American History and Culture
African Americans in the Reconstruction Era
1st Edition
By Chungchan Gao
February 29, 2016
This ethnographic study explores the status of African Americans during the Reconstruction era, examining the particularities of such topics as race relations, social systems, legal systems, and economic and political status. Rather than dealing with the status of African Americans as an isolated ...
Dismantling Black Manhood: An Historical and Literary Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery
1st Edition
By Daniel P. Black
February 29, 2016
This book examines the social, economic, and cultural factors that have produced the current crisis in African American masculinity, tracing the development of concepts of manhood from pre-colonial West Africa through the Emancipation Proclamation in America. The study begins with an exploration of...
The Assertive Woman in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction, Folklore, and Drama
1st Edition
By Pearlie Mae Fisher Peters
February 29, 2016
Hurston was renowned for her portrayal of assertive women in her fiction, folklore, and drama. This book explores her development as an assertive woman and outspoken writer, emphasizing the impact of the African American oral traditions and vernacular speech patterns of Harlem, Polk County, and ...
The Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1956
1st Edition
By Aimin Zhang
February 29, 2016
The historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred. The book discusses many factors that were fundamental to causing the ...
Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New York: Religion, Abolitionism, and Democracy
1st Edition
By Judith Wellman, Graham Russell Hodges
January 20, 2016
Before the Civil War, upstate New York earned itself a nickname: the burned-over district.African Americans were few in upstate New York, so this book focuses on reformers in three predominately white communities. At the cutting edge of revolutions in transportation and industry, these ordinary ...
Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838
1st Edition
By Thomas Murphy
January 20, 2016
From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland....
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867
1st Edition
By Patrick Neal Minges
December 18, 2015
This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century....
Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia
1st Edition
By Barbara Faggins
August 19, 2015
This fascinating text examines the union of Africans and American Indians in Virginia during colonial times....
Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism
1st Edition
By John Hewitt
August 14, 2015
As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of the most famous black congregrations in America. From its humble beginnings, St. Philip's originated from classes conducted by Elais Neau and other ...
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line
1st Edition
By Zhang Juguo
July 16, 2015
Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings and with a combination of analytical and narrative approaches, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem....
African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
1st Edition
By Dea Boster
May 21, 2015
Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary ...
The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
1st Edition
By Ina J. Fandrich
December 22, 2014
This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong ...