Studies in African American History and Culture
African American Intellectual-Activists: Legacies in the Struggle
1st Edition
By Dia N. Sekayi
April 28, 2014
This study examines the narrated life experiences of 11 African American intellectual-activists. An intellectual-activist is defined as a person whose education has provided him or her with a body of knowledge to which he/she is continually adding (intellectual self) and who works daily for, or has...
African Americans and Colonial Legislation in the Middle Colonies
1st Edition
By Oscar Williams
April 28, 2014
This study analyzes legislation governing black life in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The years from 1664 to 1712 witnessed the formative era of slavery in the middle colonies, and by the beginning of the 18th century, specific laws governing African Americans were passed. The long range...
The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights: African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975
1st Edition
By Paul T. Miller
February 14, 2014
The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...
The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942
1st Edition
By Claudrena N. Harold
July 26, 2013
The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused ...
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Shawan M. Worsley
March 11, 2013
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. ...
Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980
1st Edition
By Kalenda C. Eaton
October 08, 2012
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as ...
Contesting the Terrain of the Ivory Tower: Spiritual Leadership of African American Women in the Academy
1st Edition
By Rochelle Garner
September 10, 2012
This study examines the leadership of three African-American women administrators in higher education, and how they have used their spirituality as a lens to lead in the academy. The central questions in this case study include: How do African-American women make meaning of their spiritual selves ...
Courting Communities: Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Kathy Glass
September 10, 2012
Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response ...
Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
1st Edition
By Jeffrey C. Stone
September 10, 2012
This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern culture). Although Missouri had one of the lowest ...
Post-Soul Black Cinema: Discontinuities, Innovations and Breakpoints, 1970-1995
1st Edition
By William R. Grant
July 27, 2012
This work examines and analyzes how the cinematic image of African Americans became a fixed image with strict rules of depiction both written and unwritten. And, how those very limited and under-informed images would not and could not be challenged or transformed until the power relations in the ...
Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers
1st Edition
By Hilton Kelly
May 30, 2012
This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, ...
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre
1st Edition
By Novotny Lawrence
April 05, 2012
During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation ...