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71 produkter
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
Inbunden, 2015
1284 kr
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During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. …
Voice That Could Stir an Army
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
Häftad, 2016
387 kr
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A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story …
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
Inbunden, 2016
1246 kr
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During the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in the hateful embrace of a white caste system that enforced segregation. Rather than troubling the Closed Society, state news media, on the whole, marched in lockstep or, worse, promoted the continued subservience of blacks. Surprisingly, …
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
Inbunden, 2016
1246 kr
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In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment - a site for both political and personal transformation - shaped …
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism
Häftad, 2016
395 kr
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During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. …
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
Häftad, 2016
399 kr
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Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government's rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native-US relations throughout the nineteenth century's removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US …
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
Inbunden, 2017
1284 kr
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Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction.As demand for manpower grew during the war, …
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
Inbunden, 2017
1284 kr
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This study reveals how historian Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) used the black press and modern public relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Explanations for Woodson’s success with the modern black history movement usually include his …
Blasian Invasion
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
Inbunden, 2017
1246 kr
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Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today …
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 2017
407 kr
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless …
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
Häftad, 2017
387 kr
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In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment—a site for both political and personal transformation—shaped …
Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Inbunden, 2018
1246 kr
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Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements, Kristen Hoerl focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s …
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Inbunden, 2018
1246 kr
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In recent years, the media has attributed the surge of people eagerly studying family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. New genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven genetic ancestry …
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
Häftad, 2018
411 kr
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This study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Often overlooked is Woodson's skillful use of newspapers in developing and executing a public-education …
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
Av Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Häftad, 2018
384 kr
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Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food supplies a common fuel to launch discussion. Consuming Identity sifts through the …
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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During the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in the hateful embrace of a white caste system that enforced segregation. Rather than troubling the Closed Society, state news media, on the whole, marched in lockstep or, worse, promoted the continued subservience of blacks. Surprisingly, …
Lynching
Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
Inbunden, 2019
1284 kr
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While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of …
Race and Radio
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans
Inbunden, 2019
1246 kr
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In Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans, Bala James Baptiste traces the history of the integration of radio broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a trove of primary data—including …
Race and Radio
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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In Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans, Bala James Baptiste traces the history of the integration of radio broadcasting in New Orleans and tells the story of how African American on-air personalities transformed the medium. Analyzing a trove of primary data—including …
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
Häftad, 2019
399 kr
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Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction.As demand for manpower grew during the war, …
Blasian Invasion
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today …
Peculiar Rhetoric
Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement
Inbunden, 2019
1284 kr
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The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of …
Peculiar Rhetoric
Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement
Häftad, 2019
399 kr
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The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of …
Lynching
Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
Häftad, 2019
399 kr
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While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of …
Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association.Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the …
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
Inbunden, 2020
1246 kr
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In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka’s emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the black liberation movement grappled with …
Black Feelings
Race and Affect in the Long Sixties
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the black liberation movement grappled with …
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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In recent years, the media has attributed the increasing numbers of people producing family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. A spate of new genealogy-themed television series and internet-driven …
No Future in This Country
The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915), specifically focusing on his work from 1896 to 1915. Drawing on the copious amount of material from Turner's speeches, editorial, and open and …
No Future in This Country
The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
Inbunden, 2020
1284 kr
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No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915), specifically focusing on his work from 1896 to 1915. Drawing on the copious amount of material from Turner's speeches, editorial, and open and …
