Product Description: Offers important new perspectives on the African diaspora in North America.

Product Description: Negrophilia studies the undue and inordinate affinity for blacks (as opposed to antipathy toward them) that has been promoted by activists, politicians and the establishment press for the past 40 years and which has fostered an erroneous perception of blacks, particularly in America...read more

Product Description: Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African Americans improve and expand? Using the qualitative and quantitative tools of demography, economics, geography, history, law, and medicine, Werner Troesken shows that the answers to these questions are closely connected...read more

Discusses the upper-class African American organizations such as the Boule, Jack and Jill, and the Links, and looks at their history, contributions to society, and the traditions and customs. (view table of contents)

Challenging the legacy of slavery, colonization, and ongoing racism that portrays African-American people as unable to love, the acclaimed author of All About Love explores how the ethic of love has become the foundation of hope and survival in the African-American community. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A unique supplement to one of the most important African American novels of this century. As Invisible Man chronicles the major moments of African American life during the first half of the twentieth century, this volume illuminates and contextualizes the novel with a collection of speeches, essays, folktales, historical analyses, photographs, and other cultural and historical documents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the segregation guidelines imposed during the century between Emanicipation and 'The Overcoming' concerning with whom one could live, work, sleep, travel, eat, play, assemble, and marry