Bücher der Reihe The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

Presents an interpretation of antebellum slavery that offers a portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. This work describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents.

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold Warjournalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a transpacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book's multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States. These materials allow Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies.

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership.

Describes how diversity and dissent strengthened the black community in Durham. This book describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions.

Examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labour formation. The book highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class.

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) - a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975.

Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Charts the origins, meanings, methods, evolution, and maturation of African American historical writing from the period of the Early Republic to the twentieth-century professionalization of the larger field of historical study.

David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic - and has been one of the most often overlooked - figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass.

Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II

Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970

Black women's experience in the Nation of Islam has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy.

North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955

Argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, this title explains how a relatively small city with a history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.

Offering a glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, this title chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War. It shows that even in the North, white sympathy did not continue after the Civil War.

Describes the US civil rights movement and the decolonization of Africa.

Helps understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. This book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.

Offering the story of African American self-education, this title examines African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.

Moving testaments to the struggle for freedom.

Explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general, and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. This book analyzes the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, and the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy.

James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the US. The Movement, he argues, changed American attitudes to the relationship between popular culture and ""high"" art and transformed public funding for the arts.

Journey of Hope, Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This rich narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent.

A collection of 15 essays exploring the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the end of the century. Individual essays address the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T.S. Eliot and Chester Himes.

In the mid-20th century nations across Africa fought for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these struggles, this work probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political and social lives of African Americans.

In this text Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions.

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation. Exploring the notion of ""freedom"" in postwar Memphis, this title demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it.

This study reveals how African-American activists, public officials, intellectuals and artists sought to use radio to influence a national debate about racial equality in the 1940s. These broadcasts challenged the nation to reconcile its egalitarian ideals with its unjust treatment of minorities.

A history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African in 1613 to the Bloody Draft Riots of 1863. It explores the twin themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion and resistance that shaped life in the region.

This work uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves. Dylan C. Penningroth seeks to shed new light on African American family and community life from the heydey of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s.