Black and White Manhattan

Black and White Manhattan
Author: Thelma Wills Foote
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2004-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198037031

Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, Foote reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, Foote argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. This history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.

Black Manhattan (Classic Reprint)

Black Manhattan (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781397192608

Excerpt from Black Manhattan To the julius rosenwald fund and its presi dent, mr. Edwin R. Embree, I wish to express my especial thanks for the grant of the Fellowship which has made possible the writing of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Black and White Manhattan

Black and White Manhattan
Author: Thelma Wills Foote
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2004-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195088093

Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowing households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. The history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.

Red Carpets & White Lies

Red Carpets & White Lies
Author: Lea Black
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0825307023

In a city known for its never-ending parties, Miami socialite Leigh Anatole White hosts the most extravagant party of them all. Her annual Charity Ball, a star-studded benefit for troubled teens, is the most highly anticipated event of the season, and Leigh pulls out all the stops to ensure it doesn’t disappoint. This year—the tenth anniversary of the Ball—Leigh has decided to give Miami one last blowout before relinquishing her title as hostess. Suffice it to say, the pressure is on: this year’s Charity Ball simply must be the best yet. With help from her committee, a few close friends, a masterful personal assistant and her supportive husband, Leigh is poised to deliver. Even the dirty secrets and entanglements of her friends and pseudo-friends—the good-hearted, hard-drinking gossip queen Dixie Johnson; drag queen extraordinaire Diva Elaine Manchester; and bronzed, botoxed and backstabbing Katie Parker, to name a few—can’t slow her down. When an influential art dealer shows up, offering to provide high-end artwork for the Charity Ball’s auction, Leigh is thrilled. This is just what the gala needs to set it apart from previous years’, and after all of Leigh’s hard work, it looks as though the last Charity Ball may just live up to the hype. But as always in the world of Miami’s rich and shameless, a scandal is never far off...and this one hits everyone close to home.

Here is New York

Here is New York
Author: E. B. White
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1590174798

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

Black Cat Vol. 5

Black Cat Vol. 5
Author: Jed MacKay
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-08-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 130293872X

Collects Black Cat (2020) #5-7, Black Cat Annual (2021) #1. The cat's out of the bag! The Black Fox has sent Felicia Hardy and her crew to steal items from across the Marvel Universe. But why? At long last, the Fox's complicated scheme is revealed! But once the Black Cat and her team have completed this multifaceted heist, what will it mean for their standing in NYC? For one thing, Spider-Man is definitely not okay with what she's done! As Felicia weighs her actions over the last few years, the price of everything she has stolen is finally tallied - and the bill falls due. Is this the end of an era? Plus: cosmic capers await when the Black Cat crosses paths with an Infinity Stone - and the South Korean sensations White Fox, Taegukgi and Tiger Division!

Black Gotham

Black Gotham
Author: Carla L. Peterson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300162553

Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.

Manhattan, when I was Young

Manhattan, when I was Young
Author: Mary Cantwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 235
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0395744415

An interesting autobiography of a fashion-magazine writer who came to New York in the 1950s fresh from college, lived in Greenwich Village, & found a new, exciting life.

Authentically Black

Authentically Black
Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781592400461

A new collection of thought-provoking essays by the best-selling author of Losing the Race examines what it means to be black in modern-day America, addressing such issues as racial profiling, the reparations movement, film and TV stereotypes, diversity, affirmative action, and hip-hop, while calling for the advancement of true racial equality. Reprint.