Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in an...

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to...

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Reducere. Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, end...

That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Prot...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Henrik ReehIllustration(s): 36 b 72 Illustrations, unspecifiedTranslator: John IronsNumber of pages: 264Collecti...

DescriptionDelicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, f...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Ross HamiltonIllustration(s): B&W ILLUS. THROUGHOUTNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2001Dimens...

But nothing Demon does has any effect, and Asgard is a strange place - he must contend with Fafnir the ice dragon, ravenous and dangerous Fenrir th...

Reducere. Greek and Norse mythology meet in this new adventure starring Demon, the half-god Beast Keeper of Mount Olympus Mount Olympus is preparing for the ...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again....

Reducere. W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thoroug...

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed t...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

Reducere. Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghogh...

Reducere. Famous for iconic images of the rural Midwest such as American Gothic, Politics in Missouri, and Baptism in Kansas Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, ...

Reducere. The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial ...

This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistanc...

Reducere. "The Mis-Education of the Negro" originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, is arguably his greatest book. The thesis of Dr. Woodso...

Reducere. The reader will be exposed to the memoirs of the people who were present during the American Revolution. These memoirs describe a black British/Ger...