New Black Studies Series – serie
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Black Intellectual Tradition
African American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Av Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
369 kr
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Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thoughtFrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This …
Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene
Inbunden, 2007
1282 kr
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Pero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the lives, works, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life …
Freeing Charles
The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2010
1282 kr
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Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia …
Activist Sentiments
Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2009
1432 kr
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Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist …
Freud Upside Down
African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture
Inbunden, 2010
623 kr
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This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and …
Muse Is Music
Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word
Inbunden, 2011
1626 kr
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This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of …
Living with Lynching
African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
Inbunden, 2011
1432 kr
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Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read …
Africans to Spanish America
Expanding the Diaspora
Av Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
912 kr
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Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish …
Rebels and Runaways
Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Inbunden, 2012
1282 kr
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This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, …
Along the Streets of Bronzeville
Black Chicago's Literary Landscape
Av Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach
Inbunden, 2013
697 kr
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Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, …
Pekin
The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater
Inbunden, 2014
732 kr
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In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T. Motts opened the Pekin Theater in Chicago. Dubbed the "Temple of Music," the Pekin became one of the country's most prestigious African American cultural institutions, renowned for its all-black stock company and school for actors, an …
Humane Insight
Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
Inbunden, 2015
587 kr
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In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the "gaze" to cultivate a capacity …
Funk the Erotic
Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Inbunden, 2015
1282 kr
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Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas for black movements. But funk is also an …
Word Warrior
Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
Inbunden, 2015
1322 kr
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Posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007, Richard Durham creatively chronicled and brought to life the significant events of his times. Durham's trademark narrative style engaged listeners with fascinating characters, compelling details, and sharp images of pivotal moments …
Painting the Gospel
Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Inbunden, 2016
1282 kr
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Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting …
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
Inbunden, 2016
1210 kr
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During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground …
Slavery at Sea
Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Inbunden, 2016
1282 kr
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Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously …
Booker T. Washington in American Memory
Inbunden, 2017
1322 kr
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Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton …
Black Post-Blackness
The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2017
1432 kr
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A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts …
Jazz Internationalism
Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music
Av John Lowney
Inbunden, 2017
1432 kr
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Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz that concerned both its African American roots and its international appeal. The questions about what …
Building the Black Metropolis
African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
Av Robert E. Weems Jr., Jason Chambers
Inbunden, 2017
1282 kr
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From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton …
Black Public History in Chicago
Civil Rights Activism from World War II Into the Cold War
Inbunden, 2018
1282 kr
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In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the …
Black Sexual Economies
Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
Av Adrienne D. Davis, BSE Collective
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and …
Reimagining Liberation
How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. Annette K. …
Autochthonomies
Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
Inbunden, 2020
1432 kr
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In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational …
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance
New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930
Av Richard A. Courage, Christopher Robert Reed
Inbunden, 2020
1456 kr
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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that …
Pleasure in the News
African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press
Av Kim Gallon
Inbunden, 2020
1282 kr
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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance-arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon …
From Slave Cabins to the White House
Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
Inbunden, 2020
324 kr
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Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, …
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving
Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2020
1322 kr
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Winner of theAFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2021Terry McAdam Book Award, given by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management2023 Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize from the Association for Research on …
Black Intellectual Tradition
African American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Av Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1027 kr
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Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thoughtFrom 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This …
