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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Afro-American Life, History and Culture
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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History and Memory in African-American Culture
Author: Genevieve Fabre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019802455X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances. Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory"--from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory. The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, Vèvè Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Geneviève Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019802455X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances. Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory"--from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory. The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, Vèvè Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Geneviève Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.
The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939
Author: Robert L. Harris
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231138116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities and movements with essays on specific facets of the African American experience, a chronology of events, and a guide to further study. From publisher description.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231138116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities and movements with essays on specific facets of the African American experience, a chronology of events, and a guide to further study. From publisher description.
Sports in African American Life
Author: Drew D. Brown
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669643
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explores the inextricable ties between sports and African American life and culture. Contributors critically address important topics such as the historical context of African American participation in major U.S. sports, social justice and responsibility, gender and identity, and media and art.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669643
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explores the inextricable ties between sports and African American life and culture. Contributors critically address important topics such as the historical context of African American participation in major U.S. sports, social justice and responsibility, gender and identity, and media and art.
A Search of African American Life, Achievement and Culture
Author: John C. Cothran
Publisher: Stardate Publishing
ISBN: 9780963400208
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reviews the accomplishments, courage and struggles of African Americans over the past 500 years.
Publisher: Stardate Publishing
ISBN: 9780963400208
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reviews the accomplishments, courage and struggles of African Americans over the past 500 years.
African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950
Author: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable.
Afro-American Life, History and Culture
Author: United States information agency
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Languages : en
Pages : 779
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Languages : en
Pages : 779
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Afro-American Life, History and Culture
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Birth of African-American Culture
Author: Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
A History of the African American People
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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