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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.00
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Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 1999-08
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Observers of American society have long noted the distinctive contribution of African Americans to the nation's cultural life. We find references to African American music and dance, black forms of oral expression, even a black style of playing basketball. But what do such terms really mean? Is it legitimate to talk about a distinct African American aesthetic, or is it simply a vestige of an outmoded racial essentialism? What makes a particular form of cultural expression "black", other than the fact that some African Americans may practice it? These are some of the questions addressed in the readings gathered in this volume. The essays spring from a variety of disciplines and cover a range of topics, from the communal ritual of the ring shout to the evolution of rap to the improvisational genius of Michael Jordan. While each piece focuses on a different aspect of African American expressive culture, together they seek to reveal a set of creative principles, techniques and practices - a cultural aesthetic - that is consistent and resilient.
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Price: $84.00
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Sale: $2.43
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Manufacturer: SR Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nina Mjagkij
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Publisher: SR Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920.009296073
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Publication Date: 2003-05-28
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Reading Level: 252
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Description: Portraits of African American Life since 1865 is an intimate study of the lives of 14 African Americans since the end of the Civil War. Written by established and rising scholars, these diverse biographies offer a rich portrayal of the African American experience over the last 150 years. Unlike many other books in the field which celebrate the contributions of African American leaders, this volume explores the lives of ordinary individuals who pursued a variety of endeavors from politics, labor reform, religion, medicine, sports, business, and, importantly, civil rights. Through the lives of these men and women who struggled to defy great odds, this text demonstrates the major themes in African American history. Compelling as well as informative, Portraits of African American Life since 1865 gives students a heightened understanding of the evolution of what it has meant to be black and American through more than 150 years of U.S. history. This book is ideal for African American history courses.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $7.28
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Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gerald Astor
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Publisher: Presidio Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.008996073
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Publication Date: 1998-11-25
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: From Bunker Hill to Hamburger Hill, the valorous service of African Americans in the armed forces of the United States is even more noble considering the historical hostility of other Americans to their serving at all.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $127.80
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Manufacturer: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5403
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Publication Date: 1993-10
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Reading Level: 276
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Description: Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II were hopeful that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. In these letters, the soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.94
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8092
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Publication Date: 1999-08
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: In 1845, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass travelled to Britain on a lecture and fund-raising tour. This is an examination of how that visit affected transatlantic reform movements and Douglass's own thinking. It features the essays of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.
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![Encyclopedia of American Race Riots [Two Volumes]: Greenwood Milestones in African American History under History in The Books Store](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HKXSF0S1L.jpg) |
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Price: $199.95
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Sale: $195.95
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 2
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.80097303
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Publication Date: 2006-11-30
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Reading Level: 1008
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Description: Race riots are the most glaring and contemporary displays of the racial strife running through America's history. Mostly urban, mostly outside the South, and mostly white-instigated, the number and violence of race riots increased as blacks migrated out of the rural South and into the North and West's industrialized cities during the early part of the twentieth-century. While most riots have occurred within the past century, the encyclopedia reaches back to colonial history, giving the encyclopedia an unprecedented historical depth. Though white on black violence has been the most common form of racial violence, riots involving other racial and ethnic groups, such as Asians and Hispanics, are also included and examined. Organized A-Z, topics include: notorious riots like the Tulsa Riots of 1921, the Los Angeles Riots of 1965 and 1992; the African-American community's preparedness and responses to this odious form of mass violence; federal responses to rioting; an examination of the underlying causes of rioting; the reactions of prominent figures such as H. Rap Brown and Martin Luther King, Jr to rioting; and much more. Many of the entries describe and analyze particular riots and violent racial incidents, including the following: Belleville, Illinois, Riot of 1903 Harlem, New York, Riot of 1943 Howard Beach Incident, 1986 Jackson State University Incident, 1970 Los Angeles, California, Riot of 1992 Memphis, Tennessee, Riot of 1866 Red Summer Race Riots of 1919 Southwest Missouri Riots 1894-1906 Texas Southern University Riot of 1967 Entries covering the victims and opponents of race violence, include the following: Black Soldiers, Lynching of Black Women, Lynching of Diallo, Amadou Hawkins, Yusef King, Rodney Randolph, A. Philip Roosevelt, Eleanor Till, Emmett, Lynching of Turner, Mary, Lynching of Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Many entries also cover legislation that has addressed racial violence and inequality, as well as groups and organizations that have either fought or promoted racial violence, including the following: Anti-Lynching League Civil Rights Act of 1957 Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Ku Klux Klan National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Nation of Islam Vigilante Organizations White League Other entries focus on relevant concepts, trends, themes, and publications. Besides almost 300 cross-referenced entries, most of which conclude with lists of additional readings, the encyclopedia also offers a timeline of racial violence in the United States, an extensive bibliography of print and electronic resources, a selection of important primary documents, numerous illustrations, and a detailed subject index.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Henry M., Jr. McKiven
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.766914209761781
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Publication Date: 1995-04
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Reading Level: 223
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Description: In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Birmingham soon after its founding to take jobs as skilled iron workers shared a free labor ideology that emphasized opportunity and equality between white employees and management at the expense of less skilled black laborers. But doubtful of their employers' commitment to white supremacy, they formed unions to defend their position within the racial order of the workplace. This order changed, however, when advances in manufacturing technology created more semiskilled jobs and broadened opportunities for black workers. McKiven shows how these race and class divisions also shaped working-class life away from the plant, as workers built neighborhoods and organized community and political associations that reinforced bonds of skill, race, and ethnicity.
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Price: $31.95
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Sale: $19.84
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cornel West
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Publisher: Routledge
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.896073
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Publication Date: 1994-08
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the "Afro-American Rebellion" from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel West's hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $7.25
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Franny Nudelman
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.71
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Publication Date: 2004-09-13
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the development of national identity. Revisiting the culture of the Civil War, Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death and explores alternative ways of depicting the violence of war. Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era. Throughout, Nudelman focuses not only on representations of the dead but also on practical methods for handling, studying, and commemorating corpses. She narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the dead: whether in the anatomy classroom or the Army Medical Museum, at the military scaffold or the national cemetery, the corpse was prized as a source of authority. Integrating the study of death, oppression, and war, John Brown's Body makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that meditates on the relationship between violence and culture.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gena Caponi-tabery
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Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.89607309043
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded Jumping at the Woodside, and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step the high-flying aerials of the jitterbuggers and the basketball games that took place in the dance halls of African America became faster, higher, and flashier. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds put the buoyant spirit of the era on stage with their 1941 musical revue, Jump for Joy, a title that captured the momentum and direction of the new culture of exuberance.
Several high-profile public victories accompanied this increasing optimism: the spectacular successes of African American athletes at the 1936 Olympics, the 1937 union victory of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Joe Louis s 1937 and 1938 heavyweight championship fights. For the first time in history, black Americans emerged as cultural heroes and ambassadors, and many felt a new pride in citizenship.
In this book, Gena Caponi-Tabery chronicles these triumphs and shows how they shaped American music, sports, and dance of the 1930s and beyond. But she also shows how they emboldened ordinary African Americans to push for greater recognition and civil liberties how cultural change preceded and catalyzed political action.
Tracing the path of one symbolic gesture the jump across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, Caponi-Tabery provides a unique political, intellectual, and artistic analysis of the years immediately preceding World War II.
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