No Negro artists measured up to the stature of Henry Ossawa Tanner , who was one of the world's outstanding painters ... In the period after World War I Aaron Douglas began to receive recognition for his black - and - white drawings and ...
Dusk of Dawn is an explosive autobiography of the foremost African American scholar of his time. Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the systemic problem of race.
A portrait of the struggle and resourcefulness of African-American ghetto communities is presented from the perspectives of its families and offers an exploration of the black kinship network. Reissue.
As pointed out by Judge A. Leon Higginbotham (1978), “Not all blacks in Virginia by the 1650s were slaves, but . . . the white colonists by that early date were already beginning to establish a process of debasement and cruelty reserved ...
For this new, updated edition, Marable now explores the political backlash against the reforms and programs of political liberalism attained during the period he terms the Second Reconstruction.
Harlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside the South, it spawned the literary and...
A gap exists between African literary texts and their interpretation for many scholars and readers of African literature today. Unfamiliar with the cultures, societies, and politics of Africa, some readers...
Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop...
This book is designed to remedy the historic neglect of the significant contribution made by African-Americans to the settlement and development of the West. The African-American western experience during the...
"'The Valley of the Dry Bones: The Conditions That Face Black People in America, ' by Rudolphf R. Windsor, is a fascinating compilation of history, anthropology, sociology, and theology. In...