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W.E.B. Du Bois The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Quest for the Abolition of the Color Line

1st Edition

By Zhang Juguo
August 17, 2015

Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings and with a combination of analytical and narrative approaches, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem....

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance A Critical Assessment

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Critical Assessment

1st Edition

By Leon Coleman
August 10, 2016

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s ...

Prophets of Rage The Black Freedom Struggle in San Francisco, 1945-1969

Prophets of Rage: The Black Freedom Struggle in San Francisco, 1945-1969

1st Edition

By Daniel E. Crowe
September 23, 2016

The Black Panther Party has been at once the most maligned and most celebrated Black Power organization, and this study explores the party's origins in the tumultuous history of race relations in the San Francisco Bay Area after the Second World War. The massive influx of African American migrants...

Protest and Progress New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism

Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism

1st Edition

By John Hewitt
August 18, 2015

As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of the most famous black congregrations in America. From its humble beginnings, St. Philip's originated from classes conducted by Elais Neau and other ...

Teach the Nation Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s

Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s

1st Edition

By Anne-Elizabeth Murdy
August 01, 2016

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the ...

Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South

Elderly Slaves of the Plantation South

1st Edition

By Stacey K. Close
October 26, 2016

Elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the South. Interwoven with this major argument are two subthemes. One centers on the fact that by the late antebellum period elderly slaves were some...

Uplifting the Women and the Race The Lives, Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs

Uplifting the Women and the Race: The Lives, Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs

1st Edition

By Karen Johnson
October 17, 2016

First published in 2000. This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. They were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century Black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that ...

Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820

Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820

1st Edition

Edited By Daniel E. Meaders, Daniel Meaders
August 26, 2016

This collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia highlights the plight of African Americans fleeing bondage in early nineteenth century Virginia. Presented in modern type, the advertisements appear exactly as published. The preface situates these advertisements historically, and indicates ...

Emerging Afrikan Survivals An Afrocentric Critical Theory

Emerging Afrikan Survivals: An Afrocentric Critical Theory

1st Edition

By Kemayo Kamau
August 26, 2016

This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident ....

Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

1st Edition

By Aimable Twagilimana
August 26, 2016

This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, ...

The National Black Independent Party Political Insurgency or Ideological Convergence?

The National Black Independent Party: Political Insurgency or Ideological Convergence?

1st Edition

By Warren N. Holmes
August 26, 2016

This study helps to fill a major void in the literature on African American politics, third parties, and mass movements. Established in 1980, the National Black Political Party (NBIPP) existed for six years and represents the most ambitious attempt by African Americans to establish an independent ...

Troubling Beginnings Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity

Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity

1st Edition

By Maurice Stevens
August 26, 2016

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by ...

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