African American Studies

1. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement

   Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya... (read more)

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2. Celia, a Slave

   Recounts the story of Celia, a slave in antebellum Missouri who killed her master after five years of sexual abuse at his hands and was later found guilty of murder and... (read more)

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3. The Black Cultural Front

   How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist... (read more)

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4. King

   A Stunning Reappraisal of King and His Increased Relevance Might Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest accomplishments have been ahead of him? His murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil... (read more)

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5. How Racism Takes Place

   White identity in the United States is place bound, asserts George Lipsitz in How Racism Takes Place. An influential scholar in American and racial studies, Lipsitz contends that racism persists because a network of practices skew opportunities and life... (read more)

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6. Bloody Lowndes

   At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal... (read more)

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7. Black Rice

   Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil,... (read more)

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8. Whites Confront Racism

   This book asserts the distinctive place that whites can take in the fight for racial justice, bringing together interviews with white antiracist activists from across North America. Avoiding the typical white options of being nonracist or feeling guilty,... (read more)

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9. Struggle for Mastery

   Provides a history of the disfranchisement of African American and lower-class white voters in the South.... (read more)

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10. The Sounds of Slavery

    Collects songs, speeches, and sermons that provide a revealing window into the sufferings of slaves, as well as some of the most revealing of such documents from the 1700s through the 1850s.... (read more)

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11. Ensuring Inequality

    There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty.... (read more)

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12. Saving Our Sons

    Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-American son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, the author confronts the causes of violence surrounding African-American men while addressing the problems faced by growing boys... (read more)

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13. Our Last Hope

    Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change is designed to provide information that has been carefully researched and written about a critical topic for those who would seek to understand the future of Black families-- the foundation of the... (read more)

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14. Diaspora Conversions

    By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna,... (read more)

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15. Dispatches from the Ebony Tower

    What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -- one of the leading scholars of African American history -- gathers key materials from... (read more)

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16. Schooling Citizens

    While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss... (read more)

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17. Ambiguous Lives

    Written as a "reclamation" of long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family -- it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave... (read more)

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18. Transitions in Consciousness from an African American Perspective

    In this book, Carroy Ferguson presents a unique glimpse into the transitional stages in consciousness that many African Americans experience as they explore the essence of being a Black person in U.S. society and the world. Using a model of six... (read more)

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19. Go, Tell Michelle

    You are me. When I look at you, I see me. I see the young African American woman who, through good family values, strong roots, hard work, and perseverance, has come into her own Though your journey may not be easy in the coming days, weeks, months... (read more)

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20. God, Harlem u.s.a

    How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such social and religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."? Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of... (read more)

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