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African American Studies



link to catalog page BERTRAND, Race, Rock, and Elvis Author: Michael T. Bertrand
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2005

How a white take on black sounds revolutionized race relations   learn more...

link to catalog page JONES, The Tribe of Black Ulysses

The Tribe of Black Ulysses

African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South

Author: William P. Jones
Pub Date: 2005

An innovative new study of the largest group of black industrial workers in the South   learn more...

link to catalog page WIGGINS, The Unlevel Playing Field

The Unlevel Playing Field

A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport

Author: David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller
Pub Date: April 2005

A chronicle of significant athletic events and the lives and careers of numerous black sports heroes---and the very significant role of sports in the history of race relations in the U.S.   learn more...

link to catalog page WAGNER, African American Miners and Migrants

African American Miners and Migrants

The Eastern Kentucky Social Club

Author: Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller
Pub Date: 2004

The history of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club’s past and present bring the hidden aspects of Appalachian history and culture to life   learn more...

link to catalog page GASPAR, Beyond Bondage

Beyond Bondage

Free Women of Color in the Americas

Author: Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine
Pub Date: November 2004

Black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery   learn more...

link to catalog page CLARK, Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson Author: Keith Clark
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Examining the various standardized portrayals of the black man in African American literature and the counterexamples Baldwin/Gaines/Wilson provided in their literature   learn more...

link to catalog page WEST, Chains of Love

Chains of Love

Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina

Author: Emily West
Pub Date: March 2004

An examination of slave marriage during the antebellum period   learn more...

link to catalog page SHAPIRO, Creole Echoes

Creole Echoes

The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

Author: Translated by Norman R. Shapiro
Pub Date: 2004

A collection of the first published works of Creole poets of the 1800s, in French, appearing beside the new English translations by the award-winning translator Norman R. Shapiro   learn more...

link to catalog page LOVEJOY, His Brother's Blood

His Brother's Blood

Speeches and Writings, 1838-64

Author: Owen Lovejoy
Pub Date: August 2004

A history of Owen Lovejoy’s religious and political participation in the antislavery movment from 1838 to 1864   learn more...

link to catalog page HUGHES, Myths America Lives By Author: Richard T. Hughes
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Exploring the history of the myths that define American identity, the ways many Americans have absolutized those myths, and the ways African Americans and other dissenters have exposed those myths for their discriminatory dimensions   learn more...

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