Lou - African-American Studies 1

An essential guide to lifelong health and greater well-being from one of today's highly regarded women's health experts "I offer this book as a Black female to be your one-stop reference on your per……続きを見る

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million peop……続きを見る

These days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people at……続きを見る

From the University of Virginia’s very inception, slavery was deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to construct and then later lived in the Academical Village; they raised and ……続きを見る

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations……続きを見る

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values,……続きを見る

This field of Black girls’ and women’s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science,……続きを見る

Maurice Tyree went to prison thinking that life was disposable. He came out knowing that he had a story to tell. This is his story, told through letters and poems written during and since his time i……続きを見る

A book of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the events, people, and landscape of Chicago’s Washington Park during the summer of 1987. Located in Chicago’s South side and designed by fa……続きを見る

The third installment of Gates's documentary trilogy on the Black Experience, following America Behind the Color Line and Wonders of the African World. Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP U……続きを見る

**An essential exploration of the overlooked impact of disordered eating among Black womenーand a prescriptive road map to returning to wholeness within our bodies, from the clinical therapist who f……続きを見る

The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angelesーa searing memoir that adds fascinating ……続きを見る

Um dos mais respeitados pesquisadores em culturas afro-americanas faz um balanço magnífico de como os negros dos Estados Unidos usaram a escrita para resistir às mentiras do racismo. Henry Louis Gat……続きを見る

Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn C. Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectualsーand, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of b……続きを見る

The companion book to the PBS seriesーa timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965……続きを見る

NOT ANOTHER ONE! A PLAY FOR PEACE is a collection of stories generated to address gun violence and negative police-youth interactions by BIPOC artists and 16-24 year old youth in Saint Louis, Missou……続きを見る

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, a……続きを見る

**A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he……続きを見る

**The most influential work by “the father of Black history”, reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators A Penguin Classic** The Mis-education of the ……続きを見る

The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for bla……続きを見る

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for w……続きを見る

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As scholar Henry L……続きを見る

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women……続きを見る

From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the……続きを見る

The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltran……続きを見る

Domestic and international health activism and health policy are focal points in this volume, a publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This work demonstrates the conti……続きを見る

Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 This collection refutes the notion that the movement began wit……続きを見る

Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few……続きを見る

In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of……続きを見る

Une thématique capillaire qui permet d'aborder une problématique de discrimination importante ! Les cheveux des femmes noires ? Un peu de sérieux, ce n’est pas un sujet de livre. Tout juste bon pour……続きを見る