Blacker Than Thou
Author : George Napper
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
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Author : George Napper
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1973-12
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Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743215087
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. If the child is father to the man, this memoir shows the characteristics that have become familiar in the public figure known as Thomas Sowell already present in an obscure little boy born in poverty in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression and growing up in Harlem. His marching to his own drummer, his disregard of what others say or think, even his battles with editors who attempt to change what he has written, are all there in childhood. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also a story of the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a story not just of one life, but of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain.
Author : Maciej Widawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107074177
A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.
Author : Joy Ann WIlliamson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252028298
Joy Ann Williamson charts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign serving as an illuminating microcosm of similar movements across the country. Nationwide black student college enrollment doubled from 1964 to 1970, with the greatest increase occurring at mostly white universities. As Williamson shows, however, increased admission did not bring with it increased acceptance. Confronted with institutional apathy or even hostility, African Americans began organizing. Drawing on student publications of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as interviews with former administrators, faculty, and student activists, Williamson discusses the emergence of Black Power ideology, what constitutes "blackness," and notions of self-advancement versus racial solidarity. Promoting an understanding of social protest and measuring the impact of black student activism on an American university, Black Power on Campus is an important contribution to the broader literature on African American liberation movements, the role of black youth in protest movements, and the reform of American higher education.
Author : Laura Secord
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1387123106
An anthology of written work by members of Sister City Connection, a collective of progressive writers in Birmingham, Alabama.
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1555979823
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
Author : Nikki Sullivan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814798403
This book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594032939
A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1969-01
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Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.