Goddesses, Queens and Great Black Women

Signaling recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking ...

This book provides capsule biographies of 909 of the nation's most notable African Americans. The entries are arranged alphabetically, with all ind...

Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunityto conduct research and interv- tion programming with African American girls. Several of my gradu...

Meet the black Achievers who attained the American Dream-from the early years to modern times"This wonderful book should be required reading for yo...

During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a bl...

The representation of African American women is an important issue in the overall study of how women are portrayed in film, and has received seriou...

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to ...

This is the second of two books about African-American female chemists. The first book (African-American Women Chemists, 2011) focused on the early...

"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contrib...

African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement...

African Mythology A-Z Type: E-Book Pages: 160 The African continent is home to a fascinating and strong tradition of myth, due in part to the long ...

This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the curre...

Praise for the previous edition:"Recommended." Choice"...well written, well researched, and useful..." Booklist"Students interested in African Amer...

Praise for the previous edition:"...informative...a useful addition to high school and college libraries."—American Reference Books Annual "...usef...

Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey was the Jamaican-born second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was one of the ...

Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist ...

Her own powerful story to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor & conviction. The author, a political activist, reflects upon the people &a...

The trial of Angela Yvonne Davis in connection with the prisoner revolt by three black prisoners on August 7, 1970 at the Marin County Courthouse w...

A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya AngelouThese four poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” “Weekend Glory,” and “O...

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent Af...

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this p...

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this p...

In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woma...

In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woma...

Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have publishe...

In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. Producing a ...

It is argued that just as there is a common Afroasiatic language family, so too there is a common Afroasiatic family of religions. There is an inne...

2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles  Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronic...

Black Woman in Antiquity by Ivan Van Sertima (E-Book) Type: E-Book Pages: 123 This unique volume provides an overview of the black queens, madonnas...

This book employs a sociological perspective to examine the situation of the African American female in light of changing global economic, politica...

Winner of the The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize (2007)An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century black...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucia...

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

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Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth ...

acqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-20...

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and import...

The Destruction of Black Civilization took author Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. This book, which was to...

Item includes: a Physical Paperback Book and PDF E-Book The Destruction of Black Civilization took author Chancellor Williams sixteen years of rese...

Loaded with archival photographs and amazing facts, the DK Biography series introduces young readers to some of history's most interesting and infl...