Studies in African American History and Culture
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 ...
Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing
1st Edition
By Tania Friedel
February 24, 2012
This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the ...
Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory
1st Edition
By Melanie E. Bratcher
February 23, 2012
This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify,...
Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller
1st Edition
By Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
May 05, 2011
The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he ...
Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
1st Edition
By Kenneth Jolly
June 09, 2009
This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black ...
Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics
1st Edition
By David Hostetter
June 09, 2009
Examining four decades of American antiapartheid activism, Movement Matters analyzes the long-term impact of the American antiapartheid movement on American civil religion. Exploring issues of race, politics and culture, the book presents a fresh look at the importance of antiapartheid activism in ...
Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature
1st Edition
By Michael Borshuk
June 09, 2009
This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music....
When to Stop the Cheering?: The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
1st Edition
By Brian Carroll
June 09, 2009
*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship ...
The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977
1st Edition
By Andrew Witt
April 29, 2009
This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on the violent destruction of the United States to...
The Selling of Civil Rights: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations
1st Edition
By Vanessa Murphree
April 29, 2009
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and publicity as part of their initial purpose. This book provides a broad overview of these efforts from ...
Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media
1st Edition
By Keith Harris
October 17, 2008
Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity, as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation and as ethics refers to a care of the ...
The Other Reconstruction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen
1st Edition
By Ericka M. Miller
November 01, 1999
First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race violence in post-Reconstruction United States. Their works demonstrate that fixed representations--...