Portraits of African-American Heroes

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

This is the history of Detroit's African American community told by the men and women who lived it.

Reducere. ``In America, black is a country, `` declared Amiri Baraka, who insisted that the lives and destinies of the nation's white and black citizens are ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis particular Oregon history is about African American loggers during the Great Migration of more than six million African Americans f...

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: NmaahcContribution by: Jessica B. HarrisContribution by: Albert LukasA celebration of African American cooking with 109 rec...

Reducere. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contempora...

Herein The African American Civil Rights Movement is presented with 538 pages of primary documents after the civil war. Take a first-hand look into...

This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-Americ...

Reducere. Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions a...

This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspectiv...

Reducere. DescriptionBill Spiller was forty-seven when he was forced by desperate finances to caddie at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. One day Sp...

Publisher: Red Sea Press, U.S.Author(s): Debra Boyd-BuggsNumber of pages: 154Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 12Cover type: Paperback ...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

African-American poetry and art take wing and soar in this collection compiled by Belinda Rochelle.With work that spans the nineteenth century thro...

Reducere. DescriptionMahoney was the first African-American woman to break down the barriers and gain admittance to the nursing profession in the United States.

DescriptionAdapted from historical texts and rare African-American cookbooks, the 125 recipes of Jubilee paint a rich, varied picture of the true h...

Argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black polit...

Reducere. Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between...

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

An anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with th...

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. Largely forgotten are those African American pharmacy schools that were formed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that are now defunct, ...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

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

Many have used the term 'tragic' to refer to African American religious and cultural experience. After a studied meditation on and articulation of ...

Reducere. As featured in Ebony magazine This follow-up volume to the best-selling From One Brother to Another reflects the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of Afr...

Reducere. Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling, Paperback

Reducere. Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of he...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Henry Louis GatesEditor: Valerie SmithEditor: William L. AndrewsThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work...

DescriptionThe work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Robert J. StevensEditor: Brian JohnsonProfiles of African-American Missionaries features the lives and ministries of the gr...

Reducere. Carter G. Woodson's classic work of criticism explores how the education received by Blacks has failed to give them an appreciation of themselves a...

A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines...

Reducere. The Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African-American midwives and the ways in which they have ...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this l...

Reducere. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly ori...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Premilla NadasenNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 153 x 246 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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

Reducere. The content of this manuscript is research investigated for the resilience and success of pastors in the Church of God in Christ, a Pentecostal den...

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

Reducere. Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil ...