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"e;Who Set You Flowin'?"e;
The African-American Migration Narrative
E-bok, 1996
759 kr
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin''? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in …
Who Set You Flowin?
The African-American Migration Narrative
Inbunden, 1995
1704 kr
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Who Set You Flowin is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music and painting. This book, identifies the "migration narrative" as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, Griffin provides close …
'Who Set You Flowin'?'
The African-American Migration Narrative
Häftad, 1997
1092 kr
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in …
"e;Who Set You Flowin'?"e;
The African-American Migration Narrative
E-bok, 1996
759 kr
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin''? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in …
Uptown Conversation
The New Jazz Studies
Av Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2609 kr
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Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music …
Uptown Conversation
The New Jazz Studies
Av Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
714 kr
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Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music …
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom
New and Selected Essays
Häftad, 2023
226 kr
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19 and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of …
Read Until You Understand
The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Inbunden, 2021
286 kr
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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand—a line from a note he wrote to her—she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that framed the US …
Read Until You Understand
The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Häftad, 2022
180 kr
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Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life. Griffin has spent …
Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)
Av Ann Petry, Farah Jasmine Griffin
E-bok, 2019
451 kr
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In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century. Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America …
