On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay, Paperback - Cheryl a. Wall

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Al...

Through personal anecdote and expert insight, Claire Thompson of BirdLife International invites us on a mindful journey through gardens, cities, op...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

Reducere. Imagine breaking through the barricade of self-doubt and stepping into the life that was divinely designated for you.In The Art of Influence: Invit...

Reducere. The story of the historic Greenwood District is a bittersweet one that speaks of triumph but was interrupted by tragedy, leaving one wondering, "wh...

Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century--from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and S...

When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading p...

Reducere. Written in the late 4th century, "On the Freedom of the Will" by Saint Augustine is the important and influential treatise exploring the existence ...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

DescriptionThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the l...

Reducere. Celebrating notable African Americans, this inspirational and thoughtprovoking collection of quotations covers a wide range of African-American her...

Reducere. DescriptionRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP image award, a groundbreak...

Reducere. On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-...

Reducere. "If you are looking for a true, gritty story about life in its rawest form, then Black Child to Black Woman...will fit the bill." - Readers Favorit...

DescriptionThe legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and...

Reducere. After passing through deism, pantheism, and sundry atheistic visions of life, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible con...

Reducere. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n...

Reducere. In 1927, the Chicago Art Institute presented the first major museum exhibition of art by African Americans. Designed to demonstrate the artists' ab...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachTranslator: William J. MitchellEditor: William J. MitchellThe many ramifications of Bach's compreh...

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Reducere. This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberati...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jacqui MaloneNumber of pages: 312Collection: Folklore and SocietyPublication date: 1996Dimensions...

A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th centuryMy Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical si...

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valu...

Reducere. Internationally known and one of the most influential philosophers of his day (and for a time almost a cult figure in France, where his lectures dr...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. Th...

Reducere. It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...