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

George Clinton,

Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir

**ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROLLING STONE**The captivating memoir from "the emperor of intergalactic funk" (NPR) and most influential pop artists of our time?known for over fort…

Cathryn Halverson

A Born Writer

The first biography of a best-selling travel writer dedicated to the pursuit of leisure, freedom, and experienceDespite the challenges she faced as an average southern Black woman of her time, Juanita Har…

Cathryn Halverson

A Born Writer

The first biography of a best-selling travel writer dedicated to the pursuit of leisure, freedom, and experienceDespite the challenges she faced as an average southern Black woman of her time, Juanita Har…

Stephanie Phillips

We Were Here

A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock 'n' roll and alternative music, repopulating it with the extraordinary Black artists and influential figures who steered its courseThe history of rock and …

Martha H Patterson, Henry Louis Gates

The New Negro

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of…

Mark Christian

Frederick Douglass

"Chronicling Frederick Douglass's life in an accessible way, this biography engages with history and wrestles with biases, falsehoods, and unknown facts in order to tell Douglass's story as accuratel…

Chet'La Sebree

Turn Where

**A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study and contributor to Four Hundred Souls,edited by…

Barbara Ransby

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Second Edition

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903--1986) was an activist whose remarkable ca…

Dionne Brand

Salvage

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. Dionne Brand explores English and American literature,…

Chad Sanders

How to Sell Out

"A timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and a…

Ross Gay

The Book of (More) Delights

"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"--

Esau Mccaulley

How Far to the Promised Land

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope "Powerful . . . McCa…

Sheree Scarborough

Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston

Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie's husband, Jo…

Rupaul

The House of Hidden Meanings

***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, foun…

Dionne Brand

Salvage

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. Dionne Brand explores English and American literature,…

Tamara Lanier

From These Roots

"Tamara Lanier grew up listening to her mother's stories about her ancestors. As Black Americans descended from enslaved people brought to America, they knew all too well how fragile the tapestry of …

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

John Obee, MacArthur Cotton

Mississippi's Black Cotton

"The literature of the Civil Rights Movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the Movement, including Martin Luther King and others, but there is little focus on the MacArthur Cotton…

Rosemary Gooden

Walter DeCoster Dennis

An introduction to a priest, bishop, and legal scholar who was a prophetic voice in the fight for equality. Walter DeCoster Dennis (1936-2003), suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, playe…