Trefferliste "African Autobiography" - alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Louvain Demps, Paul Milliken

One Step Away

The little-known heroes behind Motown's greatest hits are finally heard in this moving memoir filled with the rich historical atmosphere and emotional resonance of Hidden Figures, The Immortal Life of Hen…

Bitter Kalli

Mounted

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image c…

Rachel Laryea

Black Capitalists

Examines "how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone"--Provided by publisher.

Ian Williams

Disorientation

HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION FINALIST "Honest, vulnerable, courageous and funny..." ---Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes Bestselling, award-winning writer Ian Wil…

Lauretta Malloy Noble, Leeanet Noble

Black, White, Colored

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy---an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the tur…

Noliwe Rooks

Integrated

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author's family to show how the implementation…

Alexander

A Quiet Challenge

The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politicsIn 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919--2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected …

Marla Gibbs

It's Never Too Late

The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who pave…

Mark Christian

Frederick Douglass

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleMeet one of the most influential men in the United States' history of emancipation and Black rights.Chronicling Frederick Douglass's life in an accessible way, this b…

Lee Hawkins

I Am Nobody's Slave

"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understa…

Robin Allison Davis

Surviving Paris

A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for.Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris . It's not a story of mov…

Alexander

A Quiet Challenge

The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politicsIn 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919--2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected …

Sarah Labrie

No One Gets to Fall Apart

A New York Times Notable BookA Best Book of the Year --- NPR, Esquire , ElleFinalist for the Writers' League of Texas Book AwardLonglisted for Reading the West"Brilliant . . . stunning . . . deserves…

Jennifer Jones

Becoming Spectacular

The first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Arshay Cooper

Let Me Be Real with You

Instant #1USA TodayBestsellerFrom the celebrated athlete and award-winning author, an inspirational collection of personal stories and lessons that will spark change within you and transform how you contr…

Robin Givhan

Make It Ours

"An illuminating . . . biography and cultural history" (The New York Times) of Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry, which embodied a groundbreaking transformation of th…

Jada Pinkett Smith

Worthy

**The New York Times Bestseller**Now in paperback with a new chapter from Jada reflecting on the experience of writing and publishing Worthy, and the surprising conversations raised around sharing truth.&…

Tisha Campbell

The a Word

Actress, comedian and mother Tisha Campbell (Martin, My Wife and Kids) shares her entertaining, emotional, and sometimes comical journey navigating her son's Autism diagnosis, offering realistic insight a…