Black History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Michael T Black,

The Spirit of the Corporation

The modern corporation began its life as a religious institution - first as the nation of Israel and subsequently as the Christian Church. Long before its official recognition in law, the corporation had …

Maria Pinto

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless

Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, mem…

Thomas Asbridge

The Black Death

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

Black Movement

The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major urban centers lik…

Black Movement

The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major urban centers lik…

Nikki M Taylor

Brooding over Bloody Revenge

Using case studies from the colonial through to the antebellum era, this book examines the lives and experiences of enslaved women who used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. Original and co…

Sakina M Hughes

Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts

Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs---sometimes called Black Bohemians---seized their limited freedoms and g…

Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Dreams and Nightmares

This dual biography looks at the lives of two icons of Black resistance, comparing their goals, visions, and legacies and illuminating their surprising similarities.

David F Evans

Damned Whiteness

The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these l…

Michael Jackson

History: Past, Present And Future - Book I

Mehrsa Baradaran

The Racial Wealth Gap

Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and financia…

Christophe Wall-Romana

Black Light

A radical assessment of the racial motives underlying the conception of photography and cinemaConventional histories have long traced the origins of photography and cinema to the goal of reproducing the v…

Daniel L Schafer

Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World

This biography tells the story of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr., a controversial figure who owned a Florida plantation in the early American Republic

Robert J Patterson

Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--ens…

Judith Giesberg

Last Seen

"Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during s…

John W M Appleton,

Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts

The memoir of John W. M. Appleton, a field officer in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, provides the most in-depth account available of the lives of the first regiment of free Black soldiers recru…

Antiblackness and the Stories of Authentic Allies

This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions. The book begins b…

John Edgar Wideman

Slaveroad

"Master of language" (The New York Times ) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," offering "a fresh perspective of slav…

Eddie B Allen

Low Road

FOREWORD BY THE LATE, GREAT DMX The riveting biography of Donald Goines---one of the most authentic Black voices in American fiction---that explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon and his…