Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets – serie
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Rethinking the Slave Narrative
Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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The African American slave narrative is popularly viewed as the story of a lone male's flight from slavery to freedom, best exemplified by the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). On the other hand, critics have also given much attention to Harriet Jacobs's …
Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama
E-bok, 1999
1344 kr
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading African-American playwright and drama anthologist. His plays were performed by numerous black high school, college, and university drama groups and by theater companies in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., …
Black Leadership for Social Change
E-bok, 2000
1132 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome …
Time in the Black Experience
E-bok, 1994
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In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide spectrum of manifestations of temporal experience, including …
Public Policy and the Black Hospital
From Slavery to Segregation to Integration
Av Woodrow Jones Jr., Mitchell Rice
E-bok, 1994
963 kr
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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years. The work examines the political, policy, legal, and philanthropic forces that …
Race, Politics, and Culture
Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s
E-bok, 1986
1169 kr
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This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade. Written by a group of former sixties activists, most of whom are now academics, it combines a unique transracial dialogue on that activism …
Rereading the Harlem Renaissance
Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
E-bok, 2002
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African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels; the bourgeois, which privileges characters from middle class …
Cherokee Freedmen
From Emancipation to American Citizenship
E-bok, 1978
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Littlefield unravels the complex history of the demise of the Cherokee nation. In overwhelming detail he reconstructs the nation's 40 year struggle to define the social, political, and legal status of the freed blacks among them. The freedmen issue led to federal intervention on behalf of the …
Portrait of an Expatriate
William Gardner Smith, Writer
E-bok, 1985
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LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and …
Revolution Gone Backward
The Black Response to National Politics, 1876-1896
Av Bess Beatty
E-bok, 1987
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While newly liberated American blacks were relatively free to participate in the nation's political life during the decade following the Civil War, with the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection, constitutional guarantees quickly were curtailed. In this analysis of the …
Black Laws in the Old Northwest
A Documentary History
E-bok, 1993
1076 kr
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The Northwest Territory (now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin), under the Ordinance of 1787, was a free jurisdiction. Yet, all of the states of the territory, except Wisconsin, adopted Black Laws, legislation designed to subjugate African Americans. For the first time, …
Bio-Bibliography of Countee P. Cullen, 1903-1946
E-bok, 1970
1154 kr
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A long essay on The Man and His Poetry plus extensive bibliography of Cullen's major writings, writings about Cullen, including newspaper references, and poetry anthologies in which Cullen's work appeared.
Dream and Reality
The Modern Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality
E-bok, 1991
1169 kr
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The struggles of the 1960s brought about far-reaching changes, not only an end to legalized segregation and discrimination nationwide, but a change in the consciousness of both whites and blacks. After nearly three decades, however, black hopes for equality, particularly in the economic realm, are …
African American Soldiers in the National Guard
Recruitment and Deployment During Peacetime and War
E-bok, 1992
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Little is known about the many achievements of African American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. This detailed account thus fills an important gap in our knowledge about the establishment of African American militias in 1877 and their service in …
Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community
E-bok, 1992
915 kr
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Suicide among African Americans occurs at about half the rate with which it occurs among white Americans. Why is the black rate of suicide so much lower, particularly when one considers the effects of racism and other socio-economic factors on African Americans? One answer that has been offered is …
Reading Erna Brodber
Uniting the Black Diaspora Through Folk Culture and Religion
E-bok, 2006
1344 kr
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June Roberts explores the complicated post-colonial infrastructure of Caribbean society and life as an African American through the work of Erna Brodber. Brodber's novels Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home , MYAL , and Louisiana all explore various facets of the Caribbean and African American …
Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Collection of Micro-Demographic Studies
Av Samuel Agyei-Mensah, John B. Casterline
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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Perhaps no region matches sub-Saharan Africa in its social and cultural diversity. In this collection of micro-demographic studies, the authors examine how the diversity of this region influences reproductive behavior. The empirical studies, distributed throughout the continent, are localized, …
Achebe the Orator
The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels
E-bok, 2001
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Taken together, Chinua Achebe's five novels-- Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), A Man of the People (1966), Arrow of God (1967), and Anthills of the Savannah (1988)--encompass the entire social, historical, and political experiences of Nigeria, from precolonial times to the close …
African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom
E-bok, 2000
1315 kr
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Slave narratives were one of the earliest forms of African American writing. These works, autobiographical in nature, later fostered other pieces of African American autobiography. Since the rise of Black Studies in the late 1960s, leading critics have constructed black lives and letters as …
Slave Drivers
Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
Inbunden, 1979
1063 kr
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Advice Among Masters
The Ideal in Slave Management in the Old South
Inbunden, 1980
1063 kr
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Keep A-Inchin' Along
Selected Writings of Carl Van Vechten about Black Art and Letters
Inbunden, 1979
1063 kr
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Politics of Literary Expression
A Study of Major Black Writers
Inbunden, 1981
1223 kr
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The author looks beyond formal criticism to explore how black writers (and by implication all writers) present their views about the world, its society, and our relation to them. Writers included range from Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa
Av Sylvia M. Jacobs, Sylvia M. Jacobs
Inbunden, 1982
1063 kr
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Gatekeepers of Black Culture
Black-Owned Book Publishing in the United States, 1817-1981
Inbunden, 1983
732 kr
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Womb of Space
The Cross-Cultural Imagination
Av Wilson Harris, Wilson Harris
Inbunden, 1983
1223 kr
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