Studies in African American History and Culture
The National Black Independent Party: Political Insurgency or Ideological Convergence?
1st Edition
By Warren N. Holmes
August 26, 2016
This study helps to fill a major void in the literature on African American politics, third parties, and mass movements. Established in 1980, the National Black Political Party (NBIPP) existed for six years and represents the most ambitious attempt by African Americans to establish an independent ...
Troubling Beginnings: Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
1st Edition
By Maurice Stevens
August 26, 2016
This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by ...
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Critical Assessment
1st Edition
By Leon Coleman
August 08, 2016
This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s ...
Religiosity, Cosmology and Folklore: The African Influence in the Novels of Toni Morrison
1st Edition
By Therese E. Higgins
July 29, 2016
This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's foremost peoples, relates these findings to each of Morrison's seven novels by highlighting the connections between the African root and the African-American product, and elucidates ...
Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women's Writing of the 1890s
1st Edition
By Anne-Elizabeth Murdy
July 29, 2016
Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the ...
African Americans and Native Americans in the Cherokee and Creek Nations, 1830s-1920s: Collision and Collusion
1st Edition
By Katja May
June 17, 2016
Illuminating the historical development of race relations from African American, Cherokee, and Muskeg (Creek) points of views, this book weaves a rich tapestry from oral history accounts, manuscript census schedules, and ethnohistorical literature. The Cherokee and Creek tribes were two of the ...
A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787
1st Edition
By Lathan A. Windley
May 13, 2016
First published in 1996. Lathan Algerna Windley's study, A Profile of Runaway Slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787, has informed and influenced dozens of scholars of slavery and African American culture....
Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre: Transformational Forces in Harlem
1st Edition
By Lundeana Marie Thomas
May 13, 2016
While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, ...
Eradicating this Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940
1st Edition
By Mary Jane Brown
April 27, 2016
Rather than discussing one aspect of women's anti-lynching activism, this book examines the subject in its entirety, from the 1890s to 1940s. It also discusses how differing goals and perceptions of the problem led to conflict within the movement. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, black...
Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists
1st Edition
By Jinx Coleman Broussard
April 27, 2016
This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for ...
Race, Class, and the Struggle for Neighborhood in Washington, DC
1st Edition
By Nelson F. Kofie
April 27, 2016
First published in 1999.This case study examines how low-income residents, community leaders, the Nation of Islam, and the police joined forces to close down an open air drug market. The research shows how a previously stable black community became severely destabilized and documents the efforts of...
Across the Boundaries of Race & Class: An Exploration of Work & Family among Black Female Domestic Servants
1st Edition
By Bonnie T. Dill
March 04, 2016
First published in 1994. Almost fifteen years after this study was written, many social changes have occurred affecting domestic service; yet some things remain the same. Among the changes are the increased labor force participation rates of women and the resultant rise in the demand for private ...