African-American history Books

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21. Race and National Power

    A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954

    By Christopher Waldrep

    In American history, students are taught about the three branches of government. Most of the time is spent learning about the Executive and the Legislative bodies, but the Judicial branch has had a monumental effect on the course of American history, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the...

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
22. African Americans and the Presidency

    The Road to the White House

    Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Cary D. Wintz

    African Americans and the Presidency explores the long history of African American candidates for President and Vice President, examining the impact of each candidate on the American public, as well as the contribution they all made toward advancing racial equality in America. Each chapter takes...

    Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge
23. Origins of the Black Atlantic

    Edited by Laurent Dubois, Julius S. Scott

    Series: Rewriting Histories

    Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on...

    Published September 13th 2009 by Routledge
24. The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

    African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975

    By Paul T. Miller

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...

    Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
25. Kwanzaa

    Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition

    By Keith A. Mayes

    Since 1966, Kwanzaa has been celebrated as a black holiday tradition – an annual recognition of cultural pride in the African American community. But how did this holiday originate, and what is its broader cultural significance? Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American...

    Published August 10th 2009 by Routledge
26. Children, Race, and Power

    Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center

    By Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

    A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations, this important work captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the story of the civil rights movement....

    Published December 1st 1999 by Routledge
27. Black Conservatism

    Essays in Intellectual and Political History

    Edited by Peter Eisenstadt

    Series: Crosscurrents in African American History

    This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James...

    Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
28. Black Movements in America

    By Cedric J. Robinson

    Cedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the 16th and 17th centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on the historical record, he argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a...

    Published February 19th 1997 by Routledge