Whos Who Among Black Americans 1994
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Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 1793 |
Release | : 1993-09-01 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780810354616 |
Biographical entries of notable African-Americans currently involved as leaders and policymakers in their chosen fields.
Author | : Educational Communications, Incorporated |
Publisher | : Educational Communications |
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Release | : 1995-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781562441104 |
Since 1967, Who's Who Among American High School Students has been committed to honoring outstanding students for their achievements in academics, athlet-ics, school and community service. Our first editionrecognized 13,000 students from 4,000 high schools; the current, 29th edition, published in eighteen re- gional volumes, honors 745.848 high school students representing approximately 18,000 of the 22,000 public, private and parochial high schools nationwide.
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Total Pages | : 1824 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Shirelle Phelps |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780787601096 |
Library keeps latest ed. only.
Author | : William C. Matney |
Publisher | : Who's Who Among Black Americans |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1981-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : James Forman, Jr. |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0374712905 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES "Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful, and provocative reexamination of over-incarceration in the black community. James Forman Jr. carefully exposes the complexities of crime, criminal justice, and race. What he illuminates should not be ignored." —Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative "A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." —Trevor Noah, The Daily Show Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness—and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. In the face of skyrocketing murder rates and the proliferation of open-air drug markets, they believed they had no choice. But the policies they adopted would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods. A former D.C. public defender, Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, community activists, police officers, defendants, and crime victims. He writes with compassion about individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas—from the men and women he represented in court to officials struggling to respond to a public safety emergency. Locking Up Our Own enriches our understanding of why our society became so punitive and offers important lessons to anyone concerned about the future of race and the criminal justice system in this country.
Author | : David K. Wiggins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1137 |
Release | : 2015-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131747743X |
This two-volume set features 400 articles on African-Americans in sports, including biographical entries as well as entries on events, tournaments, leagues, clubs, films, and associations. The entries cover all professional, amateur, and college sports such as baseball, tennis, and golf.
Author | : Europa Publications |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781857431797 |
Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Barbara Lupack |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317434250 |
The early years of the twentieth century were a formative time in the long history of struggle for black representation. More than any other medium, movies reflected the tremendous changes occurring in American society. Unfortunately, since they drew heavily on the nineteenth-century theatrical conventions of blackface minstrelsy and the "Uncle Tom Show" traditions, early pictures persisted in casting blacks in demeaning and outrageous caricatures that marginalized and burlesqued them and emphasized their comic or servile behavior. By contrast, race films—that is, movies that were black-cast, black-oriented, and viewed primarily by black audiences in segregated theaters—attempted to counter the crude stereotyping and regressive representations by presenting more authentic racial portrayals. This volume examines race filmmaking from numerous perspectives. By reanimating a critical but neglected period of early cinema—the years between the turn-of-the-century and 1930, the end of the silent film era—it provides a fascinating look at the efforts of early race film pioneers and offers a vibrant portrait of race and racial representation in American film and culture.