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11 produkter
Playing the Numbers
Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
Av Shane White, Stephen Garton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
417 kr
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The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or …
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Häftad, 2006
357 kr
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
Av Shane White
Häftad, 2007
324 kr
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created …
Stylin'
African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
Inbunden, 1998
1695 kr
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For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have …
Stylin'
African-American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit
Häftad, 1999
473 kr
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For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have …
Somewhat More Independent
The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
Av Shane White
Häftad, 2004
544 kr
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Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources—census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony—to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic …
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire
Av Shane White
Häftad, 2016
276 kr
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In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his onetime opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an obituary acknowledged that "There was …
Moment in the Sun
Black Manhattan Before the Civil War
Av Shane White
Inbunden, 2026
403 kr
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Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City, acclaimed historian Shane White finally sets the historical record straight. A Moment in the Sun, a revisionist and immersive retelling of antebellum Manhattan, depicts a long-forgotten, …
