Books in the Studies in African American History and Culture series

This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality, and the health risks posed by arduous agricultural labor.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

As both a pre-eminent scholar of Black Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishioner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminating history of one of the most famous black congregations in America.

This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century black women educators.

This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's peoples and then relates these findings to the novels of Toni Morrison.

Provides a detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. This book examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions, ideologies, and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA.

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.

Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers.

This book examines, acknowledges and records the journalism careers and contributions of four black women who have been virtually ignored in the history of black and maistream press.

Exploring the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation, this text looks at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the 19th century.

Tracing the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cinema, the author writes a cogent history of African American participation in the American film industry.

This work unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology, by immersing them in it, and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change.

Engages cosmopolitanism, a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality. This title examines its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers.

Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.

Traces the Black Panthers emergence in 1940s San Francisco to their eventual dominance of black politics and direct action in the 1960s.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Analyzes how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States. This book puts various subgenres of prison narratives into a dialogue in order to demonstrate a polar dichotomy in the institutional and public discourses of criminality.

An Afrocentric examination of relations between African Americans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia, this book discusses issues of oppression, people as profit aswell as Epic Memory DuBois's famous "double consiousness".

Closely examines the rapidly shifting social context of education and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s. The author shows that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected.

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s which was termed the "New Negro Renaissance."In the later years of the 1920s, as a result of the success of his novel, "Nigger Heaven," Carl Van Vechten received extensive publicity associating him with Harlem and with the Harlem Renaissance. The vehement controversy which the book aroused among African American critics and the black press, who attacked it, and the African American authors and friends of Van Vechten who defended it, obscured the true extent of Van Vechten's role in the Harlem Renaissance. This study sheds light on the Van Vechten controversy which has continued to the present day.(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1969; revised with new preface)

This ethnographic study explores the status of African Americans during the Reconstruction era, examining the particularities of such topics as race relations, social systems, legal systems, and economic and political status.