Author: Allen Lowe
Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN: 0989995054
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Turn Me Loose White Man is a an examination of virtually all forms of American vernacular music throughout the first 60 years of the twentieth century. It includes a 30 cd set (available separately at www.allenlowe.com) and complete discussion and annotation of over 800 performances in the following genres: Ragtime, minstrelsy, blues, jazz, hillbilly music, country music, blues, rhythm and blues, folk, and rock and roll.
Imitation Whiteman
Author: Vivian S. Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 995655880X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This intriguing novel chronicles one migrant worker's experiences on a colonial plantation in West Africa. Martin Tebi cannot wait to board a truck to the south where he hopes to become a pioneer at a newly established oil palm plantation. Once he arrives, he realizes that becoming a 'Big man' in a new environment would not be as easy as he had thought. Set in the South West Region of Cameroon near the Bakassi region, this captivating story told in an authentic voice that fuses Pidgin and Standard English would keep readers spellbound as they follow Martin through his many struggles to become the first African manager. The experiences of Martin Tebi would resonate with economically displaced people in any part of the world.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 995655880X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This intriguing novel chronicles one migrant worker's experiences on a colonial plantation in West Africa. Martin Tebi cannot wait to board a truck to the south where he hopes to become a pioneer at a newly established oil palm plantation. Once he arrives, he realizes that becoming a 'Big man' in a new environment would not be as easy as he had thought. Set in the South West Region of Cameroon near the Bakassi region, this captivating story told in an authentic voice that fuses Pidgin and Standard English would keep readers spellbound as they follow Martin through his many struggles to become the first African manager. The experiences of Martin Tebi would resonate with economically displaced people in any part of the world.
Romances of the White Man's Burden
Author: Jeremy Wells
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Plantation South as America
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Plantation South as America
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195093605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Nathan Irvin Huggins showcases more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring works by such greats as Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett, here is an extraordinary look at the remarkable outpouring of African-American literature and art during the 1920s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195093605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Nathan Irvin Huggins showcases more than 120 selections from the political writings and arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring works by such greats as Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Gwendolyn Bennett, here is an extraordinary look at the remarkable outpouring of African-American literature and art during the 1920s.
It's the Little Things
Author: Lena Williams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156013482
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Examines the small behaviors and habits that create barriers and misunderstandings between blacks and whites, drawing on case studies to reveal the various misconceptions and to explain what they mean and how to avoid them.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156013482
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Examines the small behaviors and habits that create barriers and misunderstandings between blacks and whites, drawing on case studies to reveal the various misconceptions and to explain what they mean and how to avoid them.
Yarrtji
Author: Sonja Peter
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN: 0855752602
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A biography of six Aboriginal women and their stories from the Great Sandy Desert region.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN: 0855752602
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A biography of six Aboriginal women and their stories from the Great Sandy Desert region.
Extreme Occasion
Author: Alec Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Success Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Deadwood
Author: Pete Dexter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804151911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804151911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepeneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real wild west, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.
Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas
Author: Andrew Jackson Sowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
This edition is abridged and annotated with updated information.A judge from Prussia. A French Texas Ranger. Emigrants from all over the U.S.Their names and stories are mostly now forgotten but were recorded in this 1900 volume by Andrew Jackson Sowell. They were mostly young, hardy, and looking for new opportunities in land they felt was wide open but, in fact, was inhabited by Native Americans. The lives of these early pioneers is part of the history of the American West.The original bound edition of this book ran over 1100 pages and most of that content is here. It's the story of an incredibly violent and adventurous time that was lived by the people whose stories you find here. Sowell talked to them all and created one of the most interesting collections of personal histories of the wild West.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
This edition is abridged and annotated with updated information.A judge from Prussia. A French Texas Ranger. Emigrants from all over the U.S.Their names and stories are mostly now forgotten but were recorded in this 1900 volume by Andrew Jackson Sowell. They were mostly young, hardy, and looking for new opportunities in land they felt was wide open but, in fact, was inhabited by Native Americans. The lives of these early pioneers is part of the history of the American West.The original bound edition of this book ran over 1100 pages and most of that content is here. It's the story of an incredibly violent and adventurous time that was lived by the people whose stories you find here. Sowell talked to them all and created one of the most interesting collections of personal histories of the wild West.
Forgotten Pages of American Literature
Author: Gerald W. Haslam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description