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Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center...
River of Hope
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform...
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White
165 Years of African-American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation...
Ubuntu Strategies
Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance both in South Africa and in Western contexts, analyzing the political and ethical ramifications of the term's uses in different media including literature, cartoons, journalistic fiction, commercials, commodities, photography, and political manifestos in contemporary South African culture.
Alabama in Africa
Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of...
by Walter D. Greason
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
T?he struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to all Americans. In the twentieth century, this story of triumph over injustice inspired the spread of democracy around the world. From the villages of Eastern Europe to the cities of Asia and Africa, people have found new strength,...
Uplifting the Race
Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused...
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid...
Generations in Black and White
Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades—primarily as gifts to his subjects, such...
Integrated
The Lincoln Institute, Basketball, and a Vanished Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Integrated, James W. Miller explores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. He relates the story of the Lincoln Institute -- an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the court. In 1960, the Lincoln Tigers...
They Played for the Love of the Game
Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of...
Uncle Tom or New Negro?
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established...
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging...
Poverty in Africa - Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - North African Studies, grade: 1.0, Institute of Technology, course: Cultural Studies, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Africa, the third biggest continent consisting of 53 different countries, is the poorest in the...