"A Glimmer of Their Own Beauty"
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1971
Category : African American musicians
ISBN :
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1971
Category : African American musicians
ISBN :
Author : Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813531640
The book includes over 600 poems by 65 american poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0593299795
“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African-American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.” — Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—these writers used words to create a livable world—a "home" —for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history’s most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community." Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be "Black," and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of—and resisted confinement in—the "black box" inside which this "nation within a nation" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation’s founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.
Author : William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1926
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826213945
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470671939
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
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Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822372312
Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. In the 1930s and 1940s she became central, along with Paul Robeson, to the labor movement, and later, in the 1950s, she steered proto-black-feminist activities. Patterson was also crucial to the efforts in the 1970s to free political prisoners, most notably Angela Davis. In the 1980s and 1990s she continued to work as a progressive activist and public intellectual. To read her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision, and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation for all.
Author : William L. Van Deburg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814787886
In Modern Black Nationalism, William L. Van Deburg has collected the most influential speeches, pamphlets, and articles that trace the development of black nationalism in the twentieth century. This documentary anthology seeks to chart a course between hazardous pedagogical alternatives - neither ignoring nor overstating the case for any one of the various manifestations of black nationalism. Modern Black Nationalism begins with Marcus Garvey, the acknowledged father of the twentieth-century movement, and showcases the work of more than forty prominent thinkers including Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, Amiri Baraka, and Molefi Asante. Rare pamphlets distributed by organizations such as the Black Panther Party, articles from underground magazines, and memos from governmental officials offer a fresh look at the roots and the manifestations of this movement. Van Deburg contextualizes each of the essays, providing the reader with in-depth historical background.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580463312
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.