Author: Pat Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578502908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This book presents a pictorial and historical chronology of the segregated community of Natural Bridge, Virginia, and its African-American citizenry that takes the reader through many generations of the Diamond family and their neighbors "from origins during the period of enslavement, its relationship to local Native American communities, and its development during the periods of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era." Two authors, one a fourth-generation and the other a fifth-generation descendant of the Diamond Family, narrate with firsthand knowledge, based on over seventy years of each of their lives and added research, a two-hundred-plus year history of their African-American enclave community. Their story adds another historical perspective to African-American history by discussing their families' evolution, environs in the rural, mountainous Shenandoah Valley, as well as the impact on them of agrarian life, evolving race relations, and the impact of living in close proximity to and in the shadow of the historic Natural Bridge of Virginia. Authentic narratives, black / white and color images, maps, and archival documents assist in telling their story.
Author: Cynthia Griggs Fleming
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461704588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Griggs Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Although right next door to Selma, their story has been largely ignored. Through the eyes of the residents of the county, Fleming relates a struggle punctuated by cowardice and courage, audacity and timidity, fear and foolishness. And, in the end, the entrenched power structure refused to yield and the county remains segregated to this day. Personal and compelling, In the Shadow of Selma is essential reading for everyone interested in the continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States.
Author: Fanny Brewster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131735186X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the little-known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this unique book, Fanny Brewster explores the culture of Jungian psychology in America and its often-difficult relationship with race and racism. Beginning with an examination of how Jungian psychology initially failed to engage African Americans, and continuing to the modern use of the Shadow in language and imagery, Brewster creates space for a much broader discussion regarding race and racism in America. Using Jung’s own words, Brewster establishes a timeline of Jungian perspectives on African Americans from the past to the present. She explores the European roots of analytical psychology and its racial biases, as well as the impact this has on contemporary society. The book also expands our understanding of the negative impact of racism in American psychology, beginning a dialogue and proposing how we might change our thinking and behaviors to create a twenty-first-century Jungian psychology that recognizes an American multicultural psyche and a positive African American culture. African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the positive contributions of African culture to Jung’s theories and will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, African American studies, and American studies.
Author: Cleve Overton
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 9780977239306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Arnold Rampersad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195125630
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Presents a comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry covering over two centuries, and includes selections by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. Du Bois, and many more.
Author: David Remnick
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037570230X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 705
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National Bestseller In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that first exposed Obama to social tensions, and the intellectual currents that contributed to his identity. Using America’s racial history as a backdrop for Obama’s own story, Remnick further reveals how an initially rootless and confused young man built on the experiences of an earlier generation of black leaders to become one of the central figures of our time. Masterfully written and eminently readable, The Bridge is destined to be a lasting and illuminating work for years to come, by a writer with an unparalleled gift for revealing the historical significance of our present moment.
Author: Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814714412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Sean Dennis Cashman surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America. The book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the affluent society of the postwar world, the cultural and social agitation of the 1960s, and the emergence of the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s. Cashman describes the profound upheaval that African-Americans experienced as they moved from the outright racism of the South through the Great Migration northward from 1915, and sets the contribution of African-American leaders within their historical context: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and many others. The work also describes the shift in emphasis in the movement from legal cases brought before the courts to mass protest movements and, later, the change in direction from civil rights to Black Power and, later, Pan-Africanism. Far more than just a history of civil rights leaders, this book explains how the achievements of African-American writers, artists, singers, and athletes contributed to a wider understanding of the humanity and culture of black Americans. Cashman details, among others, the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance, the films of Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, and the works of Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Written in an engaging style, the text is accompanied by a wealth of illustrations, some well known, others in print for the first time.
Author: William Ferguson Goldie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Trudier Harris
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820488868
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Jacqueline Bacon
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739118948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Freedom's Journal is a comprehensive study of the first African-American newspaper, which was founded in the first half of the 19th Century. The book investigates all aspects of publication as well as using the source material to extract information about African-American life at that time.
