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22 produkter
Emancipation Without Equality
Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line
Häftad, 2018
603 kr
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At the Pan-African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of ""whiteness"" that created a racially divided world. While Pan-Africanism recognized the global nature of the color line …
Brick City Vanguard
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
Häftad, 2020
358 kr
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Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City …
Our Kind of Historian
The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in …
Our Kind of Historian
The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
Inbunden, 2022
1080 kr
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Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in …
This World Is not My Home
A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright
Häftad, 2023
350 kr
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In the 1960s, Charles Wright’s (1932–2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of …
This World Is not My Home
A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright
Inbunden, 2023
1184 kr
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In the 1960s, Charles Wright’s (1932–2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of …
When Will the Joy Come?
Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Av Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Abena Ampofoa Asare m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
379 kr
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How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of …
When Will the Joy Come?
Black Women in the Ivory Tower
Av Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Abena Ampofoa Asare m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1283 kr
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How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of …
Unveiling the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness
Häftad, 2024
411 kr
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In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois’s trenchant analysis of whiteness and white …
Making of a Black Communist
The Selected Writings of Eugene Gordon
Häftad, 2025
412 kr
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Eugene Gordon (1891–1974) was a major writer involved in the development of the burgeoning Black literary scene in Boston in the 1920s, an active player in the Harlem Renaissance, and a longtime member of the Communist Party. Despite his credentials as a reporter, editor, fiction writer, and …
Making of a Black Communist
The Selected Writings of Eugene Gordon
Inbunden, 2025
1149 kr
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Eugene Gordon (1891–1974) was a major writer involved in the development of the burgeoning Black literary scene in Boston in the 1920s, an active player in the Harlem Renaissance, and a longtime member of the Communist Party. Despite his credentials as a reporter, editor, fiction writer, and …
Women March for Peace
Black Radical Women's Anti-Korean War Activism
Av Denise Lynn
Häftad, 2025
397 kr
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Highlighting hypocrisy of US Civil Rights oppression while fighting for Korean freedom The Korean War is commonly known as the 'forgotten war' because it supposedly had little impact on American culture in comparison to World War II or the American War in Vietnam. Yet from 1950-1953, the conflict …
Women March for Peace
Black Radical Women's Anti-Korean War Activism
Av Denise Lynn
Inbunden, 2025
1149 kr
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Highlighting hypocrisy of US Civil Rights oppression while fighting for Korean freedom The Korean War is commonly known as the 'forgotten war' because it supposedly had little impact on American culture in comparison to World War II or the American War in Vietnam. Yet from 1950-1953, the conflict …
Fiercest Kind
Five Black Women in Art, Performance, and Resistance, 1937-1965
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat’s On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featured performer Hazel Scott. Appalled by the racially demeaning and …
Fiercest Kind
Five Black Women in Art, Performance, and Resistance, 1937-1965
Inbunden, 2026
1149 kr
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Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights eraIn 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat’s On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featured performer Hazel Scott. Appalled by the racially demeaning and …
Envoy to the Archives
Ruth Anna Fisher and Hidden Transatlantic History
Häftad, 2026
410 kr
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How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America’s past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886–1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office …
Envoy to the Archives
Ruth Anna Fisher and Hidden Transatlantic History
Inbunden, 2026
1184 kr
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How a pioneering manuscript librarian and intellectual uncovered buried records that reshaped America’s past As the London-based agent of the US Library of Congress, Ruth Anna Fisher (1886–1975) profoundly shaped the field of US history. Working at the British Museum and Public Record Office …
Spain in the African American Imagination
Häftad, 2027
434 kr
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Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the first of two month-long trips that gave rise to the travelogue Pagan Spain, where Wright declared …
Spain in the African American Imagination
Inbunden, 2027
1105 kr
Kommande
Revealing how African American intellectuals reframed race, history, and cultural belonging in the modern eraIn 1954, Richard Wright rented a car in France and drove south to the Spanish border on the first of two month-long trips that gave rise to the travelogue Pagan Spain, where Wright declared …
Brick City Vanguard
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
Inbunden, 2020
1017 kr
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Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City …
Fictional Blues
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Häftad, 2020
444 kr
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The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked by legendary blues "bad men" like Stagger Lee undergird the persistent racial myths surrounding "authentic" …
Unveiling the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness
Inbunden, 2024
1283 kr
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In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois’s trenchant analysis of whiteness and white …
