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Examples of Recent Books and Ebooks on African-American History

African American History by Jonathan Scott Holloway
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780190915155
Publication Date: 2023
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. mely, that all people were created equal.
African American History Reconsidered by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Call Number: E184.65 .D34 2010
ISBN: 9780252077012
Publication Date: 2010
This groundbreaking volume establishes new perspectives on black history--its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses a wide range of issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the twentieth century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins
Call Number: E185 .G33 2016
ISBN: 9781107103399
Publication Date: 2016
This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 by Robert Harris Jr. (Editor); Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 0231138113
Publication Date: 2008
Creating Black Americans by Nell Irvin Painter
Call Number: E185 .P15 2006 (Current - Reserve)
ISBN: 0195137558
Publication Date: 2005
Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history.
Life upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185 .G27 2011
ISBN: 9780307593429
Publication Date: 2011
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
A Working People by Steven A. Reich; Jacqueline M. Moore (Series edited by); Nina Mjagkij (Series edited by)
Call Number: HD8081.A65 R45 2013 & Ebook
ISBN: 9781442203327
Publication Date: 2013
In this book, historian Steven A. Reich examines the economic, political and cultural forces that have beaten and built America's black workforce since Emancipation. From the abolition of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and Great Recession, African Americans have faced a unique set of obstacles and prejudices on their way to becoming a productive and indispensable portion of the American workforce.

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Journals relating to African American History

African American Review
Indiana State University. Department of English.; Modern Language Association of America. Division on Black American Literature and Culture.
Access available from start until -1 most recent year
Callaloo
University of Virginia, sponsoring body.
Access available from start until -1 most recent year
Journal of African American History
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
Access available from start until -6 most recent years.
Journal of African American Studies
Access available from start until -1 most recent year.
Journal of Negro History
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Access available from the start until 2010.