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Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Häftad, 2015
447 kr
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The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American …
African American Haiku
Cultural Visions
Av John Zheng
Inbunden, 2016
853 kr
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African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets’ innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry.Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace the verse of five major African American haiku …
Raised Up Down Yonder
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
Häftad, 2015
332 kr
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Raised Up Down Yonder attempts to shift focus away from why black youth are ""problematic"" to explore what their daily lives actually entail. Howell travels to the small community of Hamilton, Alabama, to investigate what it is like for a young black person to grow up in the contemporary rural …
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
Häftad, 2015
385 kr
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or …
This Woman's Work
The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
Av Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
Inbunden, 2016
788 kr
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This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, and mental health advocate. This book examines Campbell's life and activism in two periods: …
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
Av William Sturkey, Jon N. Hale
Häftad, 2016
400 kr
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Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to …
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
Häftad, 2017
447 kr
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Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the …
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
Av Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1276 kr
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Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. WigginsBlack intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American public and by scholars for generations. Historically maligned by their peers and by the lay public as …
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
Inbunden, 2018
1288 kr
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The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Edwin King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform …
African American Sonnet
A Literary History
Av Timo Mueller
Inbunden, 2018
1425 kr
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Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's ""If We Must Die,"" Countee Cullen's ""Yet Do I Marvel,"" Gwendolyn Brooks's ""First fight. Then fiddle."" Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises …
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Edwin King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform …
This Woman's Work
The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
Av Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
Häftad, 2018
352 kr
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This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, and mental health advocate. This book examines Campbell's life and activism in two periods: …
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
Av Aaron Henry, Constance Curry
Häftad, 2018
342 kr
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This book reveals why Aaron Henry (1922-1997) should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusader.Long before many of his contemporaries, he was a civil rights activist, but he preferred to stay out of the limelight. A certified pharmacist and …
Labor Pains
New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South
Inbunden, 2019
1438 kr
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From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism …
Can’t Stand Still
Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance
Inbunden, 2019
1288 kr
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Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893–1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important …
Can’t Stand Still
Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893–1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important …
Labor Pains
New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South
Häftad, 2019
447 kr
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From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the literary left and the working class, Christin Marie Taylor considers how black radicalism …
Black and More Than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
Inbunden, 2019
1438 kr
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Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the …
Black and More Than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
Häftad, 2019
447 kr
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Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship between individual black artists and the …
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
Av Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. Wiggins. Black intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American public and by scholars for generations. Historically maligned by their peers and by the lay public …
Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
Av TBD, Matthew Teutsch
Inbunden, 2020
1438 kr
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Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The …
Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
Av TBD, Matthew Teutsch
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The …
African American Sonnet
A Literary History
Av Timo Müller
Häftad, 2020
443 kr
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Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more …
City Son
Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn
Häftad, 2020
389 kr
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In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case called Cooper vs. Power. In 1968, the courts …
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
Häftad, 2020
447 kr
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A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an …
Soul of the Court
The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.
Av Tonya Bolden
Inbunden, 2025
1182 kr
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Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were ""only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution"" and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased Supreme Court justice. The other was William Benson Bryant Sr. (1911-2005), who in the early …
Performing Racial Uplift
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era
Inbunden, 2022
1328 kr
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In Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, Juanita Karpf rediscovers the career of Black activist E. Azalia Hackley (1867–1922), a concert artist, nationally famous music teacher, and charismatic lecturer. Growing up in Black …
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Inbunden, 2021
1288 kr
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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought tells a crucial, almost-forgotten story of African Americans of early nineteenth-century America. In 1833, Maria Stewart (1803–1879) told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill: "African rights and liberty is a …
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Häftad, 2021
400 kr
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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought tells a crucial, almost-forgotten story of African Americans of early nineteenth-century America. In 1833, Maria Stewart (1803–1879) told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill: "African rights and liberty is a …
Performing Racial Uplift
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era
Häftad, 2022
412 kr
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In Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, Juanita Karpf rediscovers the career of Black activist E. Azalia Hackley (1867–1922), a concert artist, nationally famous music teacher, and charismatic lecturer. Growing up in Black …
