Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgera

Looks at the history of African American music from its roots in Africa and slavery to the present day and examines its place within African American communitie

"Lyons delivers the history of a song that has inspired generations of African-Americans to persist and resist in the face of racism and systemic oppression. .

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs th

Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence an