Sounding the Color Line. Music and Race in the Southern Imagination, Paperback - Erich Nunn

Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

DescriptionThe Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist...

Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist...

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Reducere. In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color ...

Contributor(s): Author: Christopher WashburneThis ethnographic journey into the New York salsa scene of the 1990s offers detailed accounts of music...

This volume traces the emergence of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, and demonstrates how the radical, cross-disciplinary dialogues that form its foun...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Natascha VeldhorstNumber of pages: 96Collection: Anthem ImpactPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 150 x 10Cov...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. Samy AlimAuthor: Geneva SmithermanForeword by: Michael Eric DysonBarack Obama is widely considered one of the most power...

DescriptionCould slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? I...

Reducere. "The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied, " writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can." The seven...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather LyleHeather Lyle's Vocal Yoga, the Joy of Breathing Singing and Sounding is the first book of its kind synthesizing...

Reducere. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic an...

The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the...

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal ...

Reducere. Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) ...

Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green-a former Bell ...

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Masse...

Reducere. What makes a distant oboe's wail beautiful? Why do some kinds of music lift us to ecstasy, but not others? How can music make sense to an ear and b...

This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throug...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of...

A powerful anthology giving voice to the mental health struggles experienced by people of colour in the UK.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Riann...

DescriptionA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a meditatio...

Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the towering figures of the American Civil Rights movement

Reducere. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, ...

How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? Based in communication, and drawi...

While focused on serving children and families, the adoption industry must also generate sufficient revenue to cover an agency's operating costs. W...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth ce...

Reducere. A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines et...

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious not...

She discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia ...

DescriptionIn The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qual...

Addresses the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. This book shows how, as technology changed from a manual proce...

Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in Am...

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

Contributor(s): Author: Willie James JenningsWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social ...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Joby WarrickNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 193 x 206 x 27Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. Incorporated in 1886 by midwestern settlers known as the Indiana Colony, the City of Pasadena has grown into a world-famous tourist destination rec...

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

Southern Man tells the story of Alan Walden, one of the most colourful and influential personalities to emerge from the history of R&B and Southern...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemi...

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Reducere. Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Dennis TylerIllustration(s): 5 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Collection: CripPublication date...

Reducere. With stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship, Taleisin's Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry gained together on t...