Sports in African American Life: Essays on History and Culture, Paperback - Drew D. Brown

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A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

Reducere. The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive r...

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Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

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DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creat...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beth a. Haller Ph. D.Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller's 20 years of research into disability and mass ...

Early African Americans in Sumner County, both slaves and free, left a legacy not only of beautiful brick buildings and sturdy stone fences, but al...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Reducere. From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a pow...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Ewan WhyteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

Reducere. If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the ninetee...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this mus...

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Reducere. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter org...

Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of s...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matt ChristopherThis entry in a brand new line of sports biographies from Matt Christopher takes readers onto the field wit...

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This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hayden WhiteNumber of pages: 282Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

Reducere. Thirteen of black America's most accomplished voices - from Spike Lee to Watler Mosley - share their vision for a self-determined, self-sufficient ...

Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art provides a broad synthesis of the subject through short chapters illustrated with reproductions of iconic...