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Dorothy West Martha's Vineyard
Stories, Essays and Reminiscences by Dorothy West Writing in the Vineyard Gazette
Av James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford
Häftad, 2001
429 kr
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This book is a compilation of selected stories, essays, and reminiscences that Dorothy West wrote for the Vineyard Gazette from the 1960s to the early 1990s. In these entries, West retraces life on the island as she experienced it from 1908, when she was an infant, to 1993 when she wrote her final …
Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby
Av James Robert Saunders, Monica Renae Saunders
Häftad, 2002
267 kr
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Oliver Lewis was champion jockey of the Kentucky Derby in 1875 with a winning race time of two minutes and 37 seconds. Jockey Willie Simms won in 1896, bringing his horse in at two minutes and seven seconds. James Winkfield was the winning jockey in both 1901 and 1902 with winning race times of two …
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia
An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
Av James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford
Häftad, 2005
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From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be …
Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics
Echoes in the Vermont Writer's Works
Häftad, 2014
560 kr
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Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American …
Tightrope Walk
Identity, Survival and the Corporate World in African American Literature
Häftad, 2014
365 kr
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In Bebe Moore Campbell's Brothers and Sisters, Humphrey Boone is offered a seemingly wonderful deal by his job interviewer: "If you accept my offer and do the job that I believe you're capable of, I'll groom you for the presidency." But for a black man, the generous offer involves such factors as …
Wayward Preacher in the Literature of African American Women
Häftad, 2017
365 kr
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In African American culture the preacher has traditionally held many roles: minister of faith, orator, politician, idealist, and most importantly, leader. But the preacher was also traditionally male, and in many ways this advanced the perception that African American women were incapable of …
