An Activity Book for African American Families
| Author | : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : African American children |
| ISBN | : |
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Ulysses in Black
| Author | : Patrice D. Rankine |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2008-12-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0299220036 |
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
| Author | : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 968 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780674002760 |
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy
| Author | : Robin R. Means Coleman |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780815331254 |
Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950's Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single.
Dispossession
| Author | : Pete Daniel |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2013-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1469602024 |
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
African American Management History
| Author | : Leon C. Prieto |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2019-06-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1787566595 |
The most successful business leaders always have their own compelling philosophies, but all too often the thoughts and ideologies of high-profile African American leaders are forgotten or passed over. This exciting new study reflects on some of the leading black business pioneers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
African American Families
| Author | : Faye Z. Belgrave |
| Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-12-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781516598014 |
The African Americans
| Author | : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) |
| Publisher | : Smiley Books |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1401935141 |
Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term, examining contributing political and cultural events.
Distributed Blackness
| Author | : André Brock, Jr. |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2020-02-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1479847224 |
Winner, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture Association Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how “blackness” gets worked out in various technological domains. As Brock demonstrates, there’s nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.
What Was African American Literature?
| Author | : Kenneth W. Warren |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2011-05-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0674268261 |
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In Warren’s view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, Warren’s work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.
