The Dictionary Catalog of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 898
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African Intellectual Heritage
Author: Abu Shardow Abarry
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13: 9781566394031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. Asante and Abarry marshal together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora. Within this remarkably wide-ranging volume are such sources as prayers and praise songs from ancient Kemet and Ethiopia along with African American spirituals; political commentary from C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Joseph Nyerere; stirring calls for social justice from David Walker, Abdias Nacimento, Franzo Fanon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring newly translated texts and ocuments published for the first time, the volume also includes an African chronology, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. With this landmark book, Asante and Abarry offer a major contribution to the ongoing debates on defining the African canon. Author note:Molefi Kete Asanteis Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, includingThe Afrocentric Idea(Temple) andThe Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.Abu S. Abarryis Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.
Black Families
Author: Harold E. Cheatham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-19
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1351316311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe condition and characteristics of the black family have been subjects of intense debate since at least the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report and the culture of poverty theses held sway. Since then a consistent theme has been that black families are pathological. Despite the fact that research has been inconclusive and contradictory, political debate and policy have been strongly influenced by the pathology theme. This volume presents alternative approaches toward understanding the special characteristics of black families. Extending a special issue of The Review of Black Political Economy, the book focuses on the economic circumstances and decision making of these families, employing Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. It examines the general responses of black families to various external factors such as economic systems, and to Internal factors such as interpersonal relationships. This compendium of current thinking and research will be of interest to professionals in a number of fields, Including family studies, counseling, social work, psychology, and sociology. It will be of practical use in training programs for service delivery systems Interested In Incorporating multicultural perspectives, as well as those specifically interested in black families today.
"Born in a Mighty Bad Land"
Author: Jerry H. Bryant
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-04-03
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780253109897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers -- McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s -- saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the '70s made him a virtually mythical character. More recently, Mosley, Wideman, and Morrison have presented him as ghetto philosopher and cultural adventurer. Behind the folklore and fiction, many theories have been proposed to explain the source of the bad man's intra-racial violence. Jerry H. Bryant explores all of these elements in a wide-ranging and illuminating look at one of the most misunderstood figures in African American culture.
Southern Writers
Author: Joseph M. Flora
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2006-06-21
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0807148555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and chronological list of published works provide comprehensive, concise, up-to-date information. Here in one convenient source are the South's novelists and short story writers, poets and dramatists, memoirists and essayists, journalists, scholars, and biographers from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. What constitutes a "southern writer" is always a matter for debate. Editors Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel have used a generous definition that turns on having a significant connection to the region, in either a personal or literary sense. New to this volume are younger writers who have emerged in the quarter century since the dictionary's original publication, as well as older talents previously unknown or unacknowledged. For almost every writer found in the previous edition, a new biography has been commissioned. Drawn from the very best minds on southern literature and covering the full spectrum of its practitioners, Southern Writers is an indispensable reference book for anyone intrigued by the subject.
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 968
ISBN-13: 9780674002760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Afrotopia
Author: Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-13
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521479417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
Author: Steven L. Dundas
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-10
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1640124888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteven L. Dundas tells the epic story of how religion and racial ideology influenced slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and today’s struggles for civil rights.
The Pen is Ours
Author: Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780195062038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography of writing by and about African-American women provides a much needed research tool to scholars and researchers in the field. The bibliography lists writing by African-American women whose earliest publication appeared before 1910; a supplemental bibliography lists writing published as of 1911.
The Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1956
Author: Aimin Zhang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1317794664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred. The book discusses many factors that were fundamental to causing the rise of the civil rights movement. It begins with a brief introduction to the African-American's political, economic and social conditions since the American Civil War and goes on to consider the effects of the two Great Black Migrations in which millions of black Americans moved to the big industrial cities and began to learn how to make effective use of their voting rights to protect their own interests. Finally the book examines the effect of the Second World War and also the role of the Supreme Court.
