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Courting Communities
Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth Century
Av Kathy Glass
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response …
African American Slavery and Disability
Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Av Dea Boster
Inbunden, 2012
2818 kr
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Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary …
Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980
Häftad, 2012
909 kr
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This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as …
Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone
Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, …
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
Blackness and Genre
Häftad, 2012
791 kr
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During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation …
Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing
Häftad, 2012
475 kr
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This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the …
Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers
Av Hilton Kelly
Häftad, 2012
486 kr
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This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, …
Contesting the Terrain of the Ivory Tower
Spiritual Leadership of African American Women in the Academy
Häftad, 2012
402 kr
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This study examines the leadership of three African-American women administrators in higher education, and how they have used their spirituality as a lens to lead in the academy. The central questions in this case study include: How do African-American women make meaning of their spiritual selves …
Post-Soul Black Cinema
Discontinuities, Innovations and Breakpoints, 1970-1995
Häftad, 2012
689 kr
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This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the …
Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels
Av Auli Ek
Häftad, 2013
718 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of …
Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
Häftad, 2012
740 kr
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This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern culture). Although Missouri had one of the lowest …
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line
Av Zhang Juguo
Häftad, 2015
870 kr
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Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings and with a combination of analytical and narrative approaches, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.
Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux
A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
Häftad, 2014
907 kr
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This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong …
Movement Matters
American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics
Häftad, 2009
814 kr
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Examining four decades of American antiapartheid activism, Movement Matters analyzes the long-term impact of the American antiapartheid movement on American civil religion. Exploring issues of race, politics and culture, the book presents a fresh look at the importance of antiapartheid activism in …
Black Panthers in the Midwest
The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977
Av Andrew Witt
Häftad, 2009
934 kr
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This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on the violent destruction of the United States to …
Swinging the Vernacular
Jazz and African American Modernist Literature
Häftad, 2009
943 kr
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This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music.
Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942
Häftad, 2013
907 kr
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The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused …
Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers
Av Hilton Kelly
Inbunden, 2010
1562 kr
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This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, …
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2009
2578 kr
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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. …
Selling of Civil Rights
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations
Häftad, 2009
261 kr
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and publicity as part of their initial purpose. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from …
Black Liberation in the Midwest
The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
Häftad, 2009
907 kr
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This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black …
Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights
African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975
Inbunden, 2009
2578 kr
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The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at …
When to Stop the Cheering?
The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
Häftad, 2009
814 kr
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*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball*When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the …
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture
Häftad, 2013
814 kr
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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. …
Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights
African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975
Häftad, 2014
1186 kr
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The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at …
Contemporary African American Theater
Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller
Häftad, 2011
1043 kr
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The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he …
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line
Av Zhang Juguo
Inbunden, 2002
2504 kr
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Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings and with a combination of analytical and narrative approaches, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.
Africans and Indians
An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia
Inbunden, 2001
2578 kr
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This fascinating text examines the union of Africans and American Indians in Virginia during colonial times.
Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Av Ai-min Zhang
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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The historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred. The book discusses many factors that were fundamental to causing the …
Teach the Nation
Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s
Inbunden, 2002
2879 kr
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Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the …
