African American Life Series – serie
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41 produkter
Roses and Revolutions
Av Dudley Randall, Melba Joyce Boyd
Inbunden, 2009
269 kr
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Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his life, much of his work is currently out of …
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg
Black Bibliophile and Collector - a Biography
Häftad, 1989
383 kr
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This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the …
Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora
An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements
Häftad, 1997
389 kr
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Based on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, thims text studies Pan-African organizations and their political activities inside black communities.
Politics of Black Empowerment
The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America
Häftad, 2000
255 kr
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An analysis of Black politics since the late 1960s. In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, James Jennings focuses on both the behavioral aspects, such as individual and group characteristics of voting and nonvoting and elections, as well as more fundamental philosophical and cultural …
Race and Ideology
Language, Symbolism and Popular Culture
Häftad, 1999
276 kr
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This text shows how strands of racial thinking and behaviour have become institutionalized and are crucial for maintaining the unequal distribution of wealth that is more pronounced in the US than any other advanced country. It proposes an understanding of racism as a divide-and-conquer mechanism.
Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes
Oral History of Detroit's African-American Community, 1918-67
Av Elaine Moon
Häftad, 1993
413 kr
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More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life-families and neighborhoods, community and religious life, school and work. They also describe extraordinary events-the great migration from the South, the …
Discarded Legacy
Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E.W.Harper, 1825-1911
Häftad, 1994
278 kr
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This work approaches Frances Harper as a feminist and as a writer. The author, Melba Boyd, reflects upon the impact of Harper's legacy on another artist/activist - herself.
Tell It to Women
An Epic Drama for Women
Häftad, 1997
350 kr
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Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and the devices of humor and metaphor, Osonye Tess Onwueme has created a post-feminist epic drama that transcends current feminist theories. An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western …
Winds Can Wake Up the Dead
An Eric Walrond Reader
Av Eric Walrond, Louis J. Parascandola
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement and a seminal writer of Black diasporic life. This anthology brings together a broad sampling of his writings.
Negroes with Guns
Häftad, 1998
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274 kr
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Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against …
Walkin' Over Medicine
Häftad, 1998
319 kr
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Representing over 20 years research, this text presents the results of community-based anthropological studies in Arizona and Michigan in addition to work in urban prenatal clinics, contact with traditional healers, and experience as a behavioural scientist in paediatrics clinics.
Manipulating the Sacred
Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble
Häftad, 2005
347 kr
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At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions, Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara contributes strikingly rich insights as a participant/observer in the African-based religions of Brazil. She focuses on the symbolism and function of ritual …
Concept of Self
A Study of Black Identity
Inbunden, 2001
447 kr
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Phenomena such as institutional racism have had a major impact on the development of African American self esteem and group identity. This study examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually and as part of a group.
Gettin' Our Groove on
Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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Because of the increasing influence of Hip hop music and culture on a generation raised during its dominance, it is important to address Hip hop and African American vernacular not merely as elements of folk and popular cultures but as rhetoric worthy of serious scrutiny. In Gettin' Our Groove On, …
What the Wine-sellers Buy
Plus Three
Av Ron Milner
Häftad, 2001
317 kr
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A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In …
Look for Me All Around You
Anglophone Caribbeans in the Harlem Renaissance
Häftad, 2005
464 kr
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Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the undue neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans - almost 25 percent of the black population in Harlem in 1920 - and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem Renaissance. The poetry, fiction, drama, and …
White Nationalism, Black Interests
Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community
Häftad, 2003
276 kr
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The rise of the Conservative movement in the United States over the last two decades is evident in current public policy, including the passage of the Welfare Reform Act, the weakening of affirmative action, and the approval of educational vouchers for private schooling. At the same time, new rules …
Looking Within/Mirar Adentro
Selected Poems, 1954-2000
Av Nancy Morejon, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Häftad, 2002
415 kr
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The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejon set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. Themes of social and political concern, loyalty, friendship and family, African identity, women's experiences, and hope for Cuba's future all found their way into …
Liberation Memories
The Rhetorics and Poetics of John Oliver Killens
Inbunden, 2003
464 kr
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No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild, Killens was regarded by many as a spiritual …
What Mama Said
An Epic Drama
Häftad, 2003
350 kr
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Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful new drama illuminates the effect of national and global oil politics on the lives of impoverished rural Nigerians. What Mama Said is set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by …
Churches and Urban Government
Detroit and New York, 1895-1994
Häftad, 2004
319 kr
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This study analyses the relationship between two powerful forces - church organizations and urban politics - within New York City and Detroit from the late 19th through the 20th century.
Bobweaving Detroit
The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson
Av Murray Jackson, Kathryne V. Lindberg
Häftad, 2003
285 kr
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This is the final collection of poems from Murray Jackson. A highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, Jackson offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban - and urbane - tradition.
Caribbean Labor and Politics
Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley
Av Perry Mars, A. Young
Häftad, 2004
338 kr
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Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern Caribbean politics. Jagan and Manley each had a bold and creative ability to connect labor and politics and made it their …
When the Church Becomes Your Party
Contemporary Gospel Music
Häftad, 2008
314 kr
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This book takes a look at the innovations of contemporary performers of modern gospel music and their roots in the African American Christian church.In ""When the Church Becomes Your Party"", author Deborah Smith Pollard assesses contemporary gospel music as the genre enters the twenty-first …
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
Av William Sanders Scarborough, Michele Valerie Ronnick
Inbunden, 2004
428 kr
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This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, …
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
Av William Sanders Scarborough
Häftad, 2021
293 kr
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This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough?s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, …
Dreaming Suburbia
Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture
Häftad, 2004
314 kr
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Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored through novels, film, television and social criticism where suburbia features as a central theme. Although suburbanization …
Quotations of Mayor Coleman a. Young
Av Coleman A. Young, Bill McGraw
Häftad, 2005
113 kr
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This little red book brings together many of the longtime Detroit mayor's most unforgettable lines in a format meant to recall the famous little red book of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. It was first published in 1991 by Droog Press, a small Detroit-based press founded by a longtime …
